Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell

    This book is about a life of author and his three otters, Chahala, Mijibil and Edal.

   He came to Camusfearna. Camusfearna is part of Scotland and there are few people and nature is very beautiful. In there, he lived in a big house with a otter. He had been with a dog before, but the dog died. He felt alone so that he wanted to keep an animal to live with him but he could not decide which animal to choose.

   One day, he went to Southern Iraq. While he was there, he had a idea of keeping an otter instead of a dog. He thought that Camusfearna is the best place to keep otters because the water is clean, they run around the huge field and people are quite few. He got a otter from his friend and the otter seemed like him. He named her Chahala. But few months later, the otter mistakenly eat a bird witch ate a poisoned-fish and she died. He felt like he lost his child and became alone again.

   He got a new otter from Arabs. The next otter has chocolate brown color skin and he liked that. The otter's name was Mijibil. At first Mijibil was not very interested in him. But Mijibil soon began to be a good friend with him. He was always with the otter and traveled many places. But one day, he need to go far away from their house without the otter so that his friend was taking care of Mijibil. A day before he came to his house, Mijibil was mistakenly killed by a man. In this book, the author says that he don't write about this so much because he don't want to remember of it.

   He met the third otter in London. It was a very lucky meeting. A family came to London with the otter to find a new family because they couldn't keep the otter. In front of a hotel which the author stayed, the family was sitting and he talked to them and he decided to be a family with the otter. The otter's name was Edal and she had a beautiful skin. Edal also bring him many happiness. 

   I learned that keeping otters is very difficult but they are like human's children. Now, I am interested in otters!