{"product_id":"island-of-dreams-a-personal-history-of-a-remarkable-place","title":"Island of Dreams","description":"\u003cp\u003eDan Boothby had been drifting for more than twenty years, without the pontoons of family, friends or a steady occupation. He was looking for but never finding the perfect place to land. Finally, unexpectedly, an opportunity presented itself. After a lifelong obsession with Gavin Maxwell's Ring of Bright Water trilogy, Boothby was given the chance to move to Maxwell's former home, a tiny island on the western seaboard of the Highlands of Scotland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIsland of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e is about Boothby's time living there, and about the natural and human history that surrounded him; it's about the people he meets and the stories they tell, and about his engagement with this remote landscape, including the otters that inhabit it. Interspersed with Boothby's own story is a quest to better understand the mysterious Gavin Maxwell.\u003cbr\u003eBeautifully written and frequently leavened with a dry wit, \u003ci\u003eIsland of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e is a charming celebration of the particularities of place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32033003798611,"sku":"9781509800773","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781509800773_456e7e69-fa05-4876-8de8-c3c0e6463e97.jpg?v=1782528341","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/island-of-dreams-a-personal-history-of-a-remarkable-place","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}