Ring of Bright Water is a book by Gavin Maxwell about his life in a remote house in coastal Scotland where he kept several wild otters as pets. Maxwell, having been influenced by the society in which he grew up, perceived each wild creature from the perspective of its impact upon his economic interests. At a chemical level, these are contained inside compounds that are absorbed into the body and essential energy-containing molecules are extracted, so that energy can be transformed into other chemical processes that use the energy for living.

It was a set-up discomfiting to modern sensibilities, though no allegations have ever been made against Maxwell and those who knew him best believe his desire to be around young boys was merely a product of his stunted emotional development. Ptg 1964 Pan M36 212pp, 12pp b/w plates, b/w illustrations True story of Gavin Maxwell's life in a remote cottage in the Highlands of Scotland with his Otter companions.Even today, the legacy of this ambiguously formatted attribution means that the audiobook version of Ring includes her full poem without crediting Raine at all. For I am convinced that man has suffered in his separation from the soil and from the other living creatures of the world; the evolution of his intellect has outrun his needs as an animal, and as yet he must still, for security, look long at some portion of the earth as it was before he tampered with it. That tale leaves no trace of the woman who was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, a CBE, the Cholmondely Prize for Literature, the W. Als dieser nach einem Jahr stirbt folgt Edal und später Tekko, die bis zu seinem Auszug aus Camusfearna bei ihm bleiben. Note; this is an original article separated from the magazine, not a reprint or copy, and does NOT have a title page or cover.

The second volume has a small previous owners inscription to the front flyleaf with the name and address of the previous owner.Though on reflection, I’d be inclined to stay to listen to whatever he might have to say by way of a response to my gesture. Mij died almost a year later, clubbed by a local villager after escaping while in Raine’s care, and she blamed herself mercilessly for the tragedy. Fifty years ago Gavin Maxwell went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on the west coast of Scotland. Two further volumes followed bringing the story full circle telling of the difficult last years and the final abandonment of the settlement. Most notably, he was first published by New Statesman literary editor Janet Adam Smith, Raine’s dear friend and godmother to her daughter Anna.