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The White Island
by Lister-Kaye: John
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0582109035
- ISBN 13
- 9780582109032
- Seller
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Palgrave, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Longmans, 1972. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrations - photographs by author and drawing by Diana Brown Story on working with Gavin Maxwell (Ring of Bright Water) to write a book on British Mammals and establish a private zoo. These projects ended with the death of Gavin Maxwell. Some chips and tears on upper edge of dj ow good.
Reviews
On Oct 29 2008, Feeney said:
Call it the White Island, or Kyleakin, Lighthouse Island or. in Highland Gaelic, Eilean Bhan. By any name, it is the subject of Sir John Lister-Kaye's first book, THE WHITE ISLAND (1973). It is an 8 1/2 acre speck of the Inner Hebrides. In September 2008, 20 American Elderhostelers, including my wife and myself, crossed the 500 meter Skye Bridge from the Scottish mainland at Kyle of Lochalsh to the large and much sung island of Skye whither Bonnie Prince Charlie and Flora MacDonald fled after the 1746 Battle of Culloden. The White Island now holds up a column of that bridge. ***
There was no bridge in March 1968 when young John Lister-Kaye first set foot on the White Island. He had accepted an invitation from renowned naturalist and author (RING OF BRIGHT WATER) Gavin Maxwell to collaborate on a book on British wildlife and to build on Eilean Bhan a zoo of Scottish and other wild animals. Sadly, Maxwell succumbed to cancer within a year and both projects were abandoned. Today the White Island is a Government bird and animal sanctuary. Sir John, now the Eighth Baronet Lister-Kaye, went on to pioneering wildlife and educational work of his own near Loch Ness. ***
THE WHITE ISLAND is a very good first book by a man who has since produced many more, including a novel, ONE FOR SORROW. Read it as an early chapter in British wildlife conservation. Read it for Teko, its world famous tame otter and a fascinating array of other creatures both tame and wild, including Owl, a pet gannet, basking sharks, petrels, herrings and whales. THE WHITE ISLAND also brings to three-dimensional reality legendary Gavin Maxwell, a handful of Scots and others at work to build the zoo and tend the animals, the racing tides of The Straits of King Hakan of Norway, howling gales and the island's still standing lighthouse built by a grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson. The book fills its modest ecological niche very nicely.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hockley Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001494
- Title
- The White Island
- Author
- Lister-Kaye: John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0582109035
- ISBN 13
- 9780582109032
- Publisher
- Longmans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Nature
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Palgrave, Ontario
About Hockley Books
Hockley Books specializes in Canadian History with a focus on local histories. In addition there is a good selection of biography and fiction especially literary fiction. Mysteries, travel etc add to the flavour.