Up hill and down dale
Gavin Maxwell chose to live in a remote house on a remote island in Scotland. Here he describes the extraordinary...
Plum-coloured distances
A splendid colour wash of distance, along with that enamelled sea and the scrolls of snow.
'Beyond the...
Sending sausages
An endearing description of a local shop (local, as in only a few miles' rugged road away), unable to fulfill...
Grey-mantled scavengers
A powerful image, the scavenger squad bare-picking the bones of dead lambs. I have noticed that crows, normally black as...
Tide-swayed fronds
An otter's eye view of the world, with its human connections and its human-free watery paradise.
Maxwell's classic account of...
Mist-hung mountains
For ten years or so, Gavin Maxwell spent as much time as he could living in a remote cottage in...
Iron-grey menace
Sea-furies spinning into roaring squalls in minutes, crashing waves into the land like a ship's grey hull running aground.
An insolence of goats
Reading Gavin Maxwell's lively description of a kitchen takeover by goats makes me wonder how we can call them collectively...
Silver-shouldered flight
A perfect morning on the remote Scottish bay Maxwell made his refuge for the last ten or so years of...
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