The Saga of Ring of Bright Water: The Enigma of Gavin Maxwell

by Botting, Douglas

• ISBN13: 9781897784853
• ISBN10: 1897784856
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc

Summary

Masterful portrait of the great natural history writer who wrote Ring of Bright Water.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Map: Sandaig	xii
Preface	xv
Prologue: Encounter with a Guru	xxi
PART I: THE QUEST FOR AVALON
The House on the Moor	3	(9)
Mowgli with a Gun	12	(9)
Breakdown	21	(8)
The Celtic Fringe	29	(10)
To the Low Arctic	39	(8)
A Call to Small Arms	47	(21)
Harpoon	68	(15)
`Muldoan!'	83	(21)
An Artist's Life	104	(16)
The Man of Light	120	(17)
The House by the Sea	137	(10)
Writing Man	147	(10)
The Sicilians	157	(15)
Into the Great Marshes	172	(15)
Mijbil in Basra	187	(8)
Mijbil in London	195	(10)
PART II: AVALON FOUND
The Bay of Alders	205	(17)
The Death of Mij	222	(7)
Writer at Work	229	(15)
The Ring and the Book	244	(12)
To the High Atlas	256	(17)
Avalon Besieged	273	(18)
Ring of Bright Water	291	(14)
The Haywire Winter	305	(24)
PART III: AVALON LOST
End of the Idyll	329	(18)
The Habitat of Marriage	347	(17)
Break-up	364	(17)
Finale	381	(15)
A Chapter of Accidents	396	(21)
A Pattern of Islands	417	(21)
On the Rocks	438	(12)
Bitter Spring	450	(13)
The Curse	463	(11)
The Rearguard Action	474	(10)
Revived Fortunes	484	(10)
Fire and Ice	494	(6)
The White Island	500	(11)
Opting Out	511	(16)
A Bright Bitter Sea	527	(14)
No Coming Back	541	(10)
The Tunnel	551	(18)
Epilogue	565	(4)
Acknowledgments	569	(2)
Bibliography	571	(2)
Source Notes	573	(6)
Index	579