death_date death_place birth_place nationality notableworks birth_date genre image article_title name occupation
07 september 1969 inverness elrig british '' ring of bright water '' 15 july 1914 natural history , travel literature gavin maxwell.jpg gavin maxwell
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gavin maxwell

gavin maxwell frsl , fial , fzs -lrb- sc . -rrb-
, frgs -lrb- 15 july 19147 september 1969 -rrb- was a scottish naturalist and author , best known for his work with otters .
he wrote the book `` ring of bright water '' -lrb- 1960 -rrb- about how he brought an otter back from iraq and raised it in scotland .
`` ring of bright water '' sold more than a million copies and was made into a film starring bill travers and virginia mckenna in 1969 .
the title `` ring of bright water '' was taken from a poem by kathleen raine , who said in her autobiography that maxwell had been the love of her life .
