Henry Williamson’s Tarka the Otter, published in 1927, fast became a children’s classic. And then, in 1960, Gavin Maxwell’s Ring of Bright Water – a delightful account of his life in a ...

Much of the otter's popularity can be traced back to two important books about the species - Henry Williamson's 1927 novel Tarka the Otter and Gavin Maxwell's Ring of Bright Water ... and Welsh rivers ...

Dan Boothby enjoyed (or endured) a fatherless, gypsy childhood, and subsequently drifted for years before fetching up at the Kyleakin Lighthouse, off the coast of Skye, last home of Gavin Maxwell. It ...