Maxwell never knew his father killed in battle in 1914 the year of his birthHis childhood spent at the isolated Scottish ancestral home of Elrig and his wartime training SOE agents in survival techniques he later took up shark hunting on the Hebridean isle of Soay the subject of his first book Harpoon at a Ven.
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Kindle Douglas Botting #195; Gavin Maxwell PDFEPUB #220; #195; gavin book, maxwell free, Gavin Maxwell PDF/EPUBGavin Maxwell was born on the 15th July 1914 the youngest son of Lieutenant Colonel Aymer Maxwell and Lady Mary Percy fifth daughter of the seventh Duke of Northumberland As the fourth child he had a sheltered upbringing in the small village of Elrig in Wigtownshire He was late being sent off to boarding school and struggled to mix with other children preferring animals which he always had a natural affinity w
Kindle Douglas Botting #195; Gavin Maxwell PDFEPUB #220; #195; gavin book, maxwell free, Gavin Maxwell PDF/EPUBDouglas Botting is an excellent biographer helped by the fact that he was a close friend of Maxwells' His early life growing up in the Scottish highlands and his WW2 SAS service later shark hunting ventures prove him to be a talented and formidable force A shame Maxwell's estate put a block on some parts of Maxwell's life eg his homosexuality and bipolar disorder were only marginally mentioned which gives a rather lopsided view of his relationships namely those of Kathleen Rain and his wife Lavinia figure predominately and of his relationships with animals and conservation The omission of details of his homosexuality and biopolar condition make it hard to understand the man in some ways but in other ways only add to the sense than Gavin Maxwell did not fit into the world and was essentially an outsider Maxwell by all accounts was a remarkable man writer though sadly feted with disaster after disaster s
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