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Gavin Maxwell: A Life
Gavin Maxwell was a romantic self-destructive adventurer brave and handsome with a deep sympathy for the underdog a wonderfully curious mind and a dogged commitment to discovering the truth It was said of him that he was loved by women had sex with men but his emotional life was ruled by animals His father died in the trenches in the year of his birth so he and his brothers enjoyed a wonderfully carefree childhood living in passionate proximity to their mother the widowed daughter of the Duke of Northumberland in an isolated house on the south-west coast of Scotland He became one of the most brilliant and quixotic of British travel-writers who wrote about Iraq (where he travelled with Wilfrid Thesiger in 1956 and acquired his first otter) Sicily (where he befriended both Communist peasants
and Mafia hitmen) and Morocco (where he spent six years chronicling the rise and fall of a Berber dynasty) But he would become even more famous for his trilogy of books set in the north-west coast of Scotland which was a true fulfilment of his affinity with nature and a love of wild things most especially otters Despite the success of Ring of Bright Water The Rocks Remain and Raven Seek thy Brother the vast bulk of his life remained a closely guarded secret He was by turns a shark-hunter a wartime secret agent portrait-painter racing car-driver naturalist poet and a social renegade Often poised on the edge of bankruptcy he could also be insanely profligate and generous
and Mafia hitmen) and Morocco (where he spent six years chronicling the rise and fall of a Berber dynasty) But he would become even more famous for his trilogy of books set in the north-west coast of Scotland which was a true fulfilment of his affinity with nature and a love of wild things most especially otters Despite the success of Ring of Bright Water The Rocks Remain and Raven Seek thy Brother the vast bulk of his life remained a closely guarded secret He was by turns a shark-hunter a wartime secret agent portrait-painter racing car-driver naturalist poet and a social renegade Often poised on the edge of bankruptcy he could also be insanely profligate and generous
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