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Ring of Bright Water is a 1960 autobiographical book by Gavin Maxwell and a 1969 film, loosely based on the book, starring Virginia McKenna.

The title was taken from a poem by Kathleen Raine, who said in her autobiography that Maxwell had been the love of her life.

Book

The book describes how he brought a Smooth-coated Otter back from Iraq and raised it in Scotland. He took the otter, called Mijbil, to the London Zoological Society, where it was decided that this was previously unknown subspecies, and it was named after him: Lutrogale perspicillata maxwelli. The book was published by Longmans; a subsequent paperback reissue has ISBN 0140039236.

Film

The film offers a fictionalised account of Maxwell's adventures with his Euorpean Otter Mij in the setting of the equally fictional Camusfearna in Scotland. The theme tune was sung by Val Doonican.

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