Books: Otters and Others

RAVEN SEEK THY BROTHER by Gavin Maxwell. 210 pages. Dutton. $6.95.

Gavin Maxwell is a kilted Scots eccentric who likes to live in conditions of barbarous discomfort in the bleakest of bleak houses on the icy shores of the most inhospitable islands left in Europe. Like all semi-hermits, he enjoys telling the world how much he does not miss it and informing man that he prefers the company of others, particularly otters. Ring of Bright Water, his book about his ottery on the coast of the West Highlands of Scotland, was a British and U.S. bestseller. In Raven Seek Thy Brother, he...

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