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Maxwell's Ghost : An Epilogue to Gavin Maxwell's Camusfearna

Name: Maxwell's Ghost : An Epilogue to Gavin Maxwell's Camusfearna
Author: Richard Frere
ISBN: 9781841580036

by Richard Frere

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Overview

Gavin Maxwell's Ring of Bright Water is one of the most famous and best-selling books of natural history of the twentieth century. Yet the man who wrote it remains a fascinating and enduring enigma. This is a personal and sympathetic look at this extraordinary man during his last tumultuous years by one of his closest friends and business manager. The title refers to the physical resemblance between the two men and the book is a grittily honest portrayal of Maxwell through the destruction of Camusfearna to his final acceptance of the inevitability of death.

About the Author, Richard Frere

Richard Frere was born at Roydon Hall, Norfolk, in 1922. When Frere was a child, his father moved to Scotland and after private tutoring he went to Inverness Academy. He instinctively took to the Highlands, and over the course of his life he published a number of works on the area as well as on a variety of other subjects, however, he would probably have remained unknown to the wider world had it not been for his association with Gavin Maxwell and the publication of Maxwell's Ghost in 1976. He died in 1999.