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ISBN: 9781509800759
RRP: £14.99
PAGES: 320
PUBLICATION DATE: September 10, 2015
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Island of Dreams: A Personal History of a Remarkable Place
By (author) Dan Boothby
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.
Dan Boothby
Dan Boothby was born in 1969. He has travelled extensively, including sailing over 40,000 sea miles. Island of Dreams is his first work of creative non-fiction.