Island of Dreams A Personal History of a Remarkable Place

Dan Boothby had been drifting for more than twenty years, without the pontoons of family, friends or a steady occupation. He was looking for but never finding the perfect place to land. Finally, unexpectedly, an opportunity presented itself. After a lifelong obsession with Gavin Maxwell's Ring of Bright Water trilogy, Boothby was given the chance to move to Maxwell's former home, a tiny island on the western seaboard of the Highlands of Scotland.Island of Dreams is about Boothby's time living there, and about the natural and human history that surrounded him; it's about the people he meets and the stories they tell, and about his engagement with this remote landscape, including the otters that inhabit it. Interspersed with Boothby's own story is a quest to better understand the mysterious Gavin Maxwell.Beautifully written and frequently leavened with a dry wit, Island of Dreams is a charming celebration of the particularities of place.

ISBN:	9781509800773
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Imprint:	Picador
Published date:	07 Apr 2016
DEWEY:	941.156
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	296
Weight:	228g
Height:	132mm
Width:	197mm
Spine width:	22mm

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