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FRERE, RICHARD, Maxwell’s Ghost, Gollancz, 1976.
GEDDES, TEX, Hebridean Sharker, Herbert Jenkins, 1960.
GLASIER, PHILIP, As the Falcon Her Bells, Heinemann, 1963.
HILL, PETER, Stargazing: Memoirs of a Lighthouse Keeper, Canongate, 2003.
HOGG, JAMES, James Robertson-Justice: What’s the Bleeding Time?, Tomahawk Press, 2008.
HOWARD, ELIZABETH JANE, Slipstream, Macmillan, 2002.
HUXLEY, ELSPETH, Peter Scott: Painter and Naturalist, Faber & Faber, 1995.
KNIGHTON, C. S., Kyleakin Lighthouse: A Short History, privately printed, 1982.
LEWIS, WILLIAM JOHN, Ceaseless Vigil: My Lonely Years in the Lighthouse Service, Harrap, 1970.
LISTER-KAYE, JOHN, The White Island, Longmans, 1972.
——, The Seeing Eye: Notes of a Highland Naturalist, Allen Lane, 1980.
LOCKLEY, R. M., The Island, André Deutsch, 1969.
——, Orielton, André Deutsch, 1977.
LORENZ, KONRAD, King Solomon’s Ring, Methuen & Co., 1952.
MACKENZIE, R. F., Escape from the Classroom, Collins, 1965.
MAITLAND, ALEXANDER, Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer, HarperCollins, 2006.
MITCHELL, IAN, Isles of the West, Berlinn Ltd, 2006.
NIALL, IAN, The New Poacher’s Handbook, Heinemann, 1960.
PACKHAM, CHRIS, Rocky Shorelands, Collins, 1989.
PARKER, TONY, The Lighthouse, Hutchinson, 1975.
PATTERSON, KEVIN, The Water In Between: A Journey at Sea, Viking, 2000.
PIKE, OLIVER G. TUCK, MAGDALEN F. P., Wild Nature Wooed and Won, Jarrold & Son, 1909.
RAINE, KATHLEEN, The Year One: Poems, Hamish Hamilton, 1952.
——, On a Deserted Shore, Hamish Hamilton, 1973.
——, The Lion’s Mouth, Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
REED, LAURANCE, The Soay of Our Forefathers, Berlinn Ltd, 2002.
SCOTT, PETER, The Eye of the Wind, Hodder & Stoughton, 1961.
STANDHOPE, P. F., Truth or Consequences, Cork Street Books, 1914.
THESIGER, WILFRED, Arabian Sands, Longmans, 1959.
——, The Marsh Arabs, Longmans, 1964.
THOMSON, DAVID, The People of the Sea, Arena, 1990.
WATKINS, ANTHONY, The Sea My Hunting Ground, Heinemann, 1958.
WATSON, GRAHAM, Book Society, André Deutsch, 1980.
WAYRE, PHILIP, The River People, Collins, 1976.
——, The Private Life of the Otter, Collins, 1979.
WHITE, T. H., The Goshawk, Cape, 1951.
TELEVISION AND RADIO DOCUMENTARIES
BBC2, Ring of Bright Water and Beyond, The World About Us series, 1979.
BBC Scotland, Memories of Maxwell, EX:S, 1999.
BBC, Gavin Maxwell: An Elegy, Radio Scotland, 2006.
BBC, Terry Nutkins: In the Ring of Bright Water, Radio 4, 2009.
MAGAZINE ARTICLES AND PAPERS
HILLABY, J. & KLEBOE, RAYMOND S., ‘Shark Hunting’, Picture Post, 21 September 1946.
THESIGER, WILFRED & MAXWELL, GAVIN, ‘Marsh Dwellers of Southern Iraq’, National Geographic, February 1958.
DICKINS, ANTHONY, ‘Gavin Maxwell: A Postscript’, London Magazine, August/September 1976.
Inventory Acc. 10555, ‘The Papers of Gavin Maxwell & Gavin Maxwell Enterprises Ltd’, Manuscripts Division, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Endnotes
1 Each lighthouse, lit buoy, light beacon, light vessel, etc., exhibits a unique sequence of light and dark, or flashes (a ‘character’), so that at night the mariner can match each particular light (s)he sees with that marked on the sea chart of the vessel, to navigate a safe passage. Lights at night, to a mariner, spell danger.
2 Many more can be found in Douglas Botting’s biography.
3 Botting, p. 61.
4 A punishment used in some schools in Wales, between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, to dissuade the speaking of Welsh. A stick or token – the ‘Welsh Not’ – was handed to any child caught speaking Welsh in class. The ‘Not’ could then be passed on to another child caught, or informed on for, speaking Welsh. The child wearing the ‘Not’ at the end of the school day would be punished.
5 Here I should give you a précis of Ring of Bright Water, and later on I should provide you with workmanlike précis of Maxwell’s other books. But I don’t want to. If you’re interested, find the books and read them. Read them all.
6 Botting, p. 395.
7 Fill if necessary.
8 Yeah, right.
9 Not his real name.
10 Not her real name, either.
Dan Boothby was born in 1969 and grew up in a commune in Norfolk. He has travelled extensively and studied Arabic at Durham University and L’Institut Français d’Études Arabes de Damas, Syria. Island of Dreams is his first work of creative non-fiction.
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