Gavin Maxwell

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Gavin Maxwell was a romantic self- destructive aristocratic adventurer who worked as secret agent shark fisherman racing driver poet and travel writer. His books on Iraq Sicily and Morocco were acclaimed but his fame as a writer rests on his bestselling story of the otters he lived with in a remote cottage on the west coast of Scotland Ring of Bright Water. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Maxwell's private life was every bit as turbulent. His homosexuality was masked by the love of a number of women for whom he was a serially unsatisfactory partner. This biography is a magnificent evocation of the man his time and the places and animals that formed such an important part of it. Never was the simple life of a nature-loving conservationist pursued by so complicated a character.</span></p><p></p>