Maxwell's Ghost by Richard Frere

Maxwell's Ghost by Richard Frere

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Zusammenfassung

First published in 1976, this classic account of the life and achievements of a man whose work and beliefs have attained an almost mythic status, is written by one of his closest friends - also his business manager - and is a grittily honest portrait of Gavin Maxwell, the author of Ring of Bright Water.

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Maxwell's Ghost by Richard Frere

Gavin Maxwell's "Ring of Bright Water" is one of the most famous books of natural history of the 20th century. Yet the man remains a fascinating and enduring enigma. This is a personal and sympathetic look at an extraordinary man during his last tumultuous years by one of his closest friends and his business manager. The title refers to the physical resemblance between the two men and the book aims to provide an honest portrait of Maxwell through the destruction of Camusfearna to his final acceptance of the inevitability of death.
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.
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ISBN 13 9781841580036
ISBN 10 1841580031
Titel Maxwell's Ghost
Autor Richard Frere
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Birlinn General
Erscheinungsjahr 1999-07-20
Seitenanzahl 252
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