The House of Elrig

“This is the personal story of Gavin Maxwell’s childhood and boyhood, most of which he spent, in fact or in fancy, at the house of Elrig, a lonely, windswept house on the moorlands of Galloway. This is the house which, together with the influence of this relations, shaped his interest in living creatures and his love of wild country and wildernesses, and led to the way of life he describes so brilliantly in Ring of Bright Water.”