Gavin Maxwell lived at Camusfearna, facing Skye on the Sound of Sleat, for many years. This is a remarkable self-portrait enlivened by courage and humor. It is full of marvelous anecdotes, descriptions of people and landscapes, birds and animals, times of comedy and tragedy. The happiest are the months when the otters Edal and Teko were miraculously reconciled with their owner in an Indian summer of gentleness and warm contentment.