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Name: Gavin Maxwell
Birth Date: July 15, 1914
Death Date: September 7, 1969
Nationality: British
Ethnicity: Scottish
Gender: Male

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Biography of Gavin Maxwell
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The name of Gavin Maxwell will be forever linked with his Ring of Bright Water (1960), a narrative of his experiences in keeping otters on the remote northwest coast of Scotland. Maxwell managed to infuse his account of his difficult, isolated,...


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Gavin Maxwell FRSL, FIAL, FZS (Sc.), FRGS, FAGS[1] (15 July 1914 – 7 September 1969) was a Scottish naturalist and author, best known for his work with otters. He wrote the book Ring of Bright Water (1960) about how he brought an otter back from...


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Out and about.(Gavin Maxwell and Eilean Ban, Scotland)(Brief Article)
03/01/2001: 601 words, approx. 2 pages
Lee Karen Stow visits the Bright Water Visitor Centre as it prepares to re-open for summer Forty or so years ago, author and naturalist Gavin Maxwell had a dream. Gazing out the window of his home, the old lighthouse keeper's cottage on Eilean...
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The dark love behind A Ring of Bright Water Letters reveal that author Gavin Maxwell was a homosexual who could not return the passionate feelings of the poet Kathleen Raine
09/11/2005: 859 words, approx. 3 pages
HIS NOVEL Ring of Bright Water sold more than a million copies and inspired one of the best-loved British films of all time. Letters donated to the British Library reveal, however, that Gavin Maxwell was a dysfunctional Peter Pan figure who eschewed adult...
 


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