Description
| Product ID: | 9781509800773 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Island of Dreams |
| Subtitle: | A Personal History of a Remarkable Place |
| Authors: | Author: Dan Boothby |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Travel writing, Travel writing, Isle of Skye |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A deeply personal memoir about the search for home. <p>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.<br><i>Island of Dreams</i> 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.<br>Beautifully written and frequently leavened with a dry wit, <i>Island of Dreams</i> is a charming celebration of the particularities of place.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-04-07 |
