Analyzing published writings and unpublished archival documents, this paper examines the career of Gavin Maxwell as a travel writer, in Iraq, Morocco, and Algeria, in the context of recent historiography on the global public relations networking of Moroccan and Algerian anticolonial movements. Through his relationships with British journalist-activist Margaret Pope, and the Moroccan monarchy’s press services head and Minister of Information and Tourism, Ahmed Alaoui, Maxwell, best-known for his nature-writing and animal husbandry in Ring of Bright Water (1960), became, if only briefly and partially, a part of North African networks of public relations developed to cultivate global public opinion. This paper examines how Gavin Maxwell, emerged from a background of European colonialist adventure-writing, to become an agent for the FLN Algerian independence movement in 1961, and then, in The Rocks Remain (1963) and Lords of the Atlas (1966), to advance a positive portrait of the newly independent Moroccan monarchy and, in the latter work, a condemnation of French colonialism. Through critical textual analysis of Maxwell’s writing, the paper demonstrates how imperialist cultures and orientalist tropes of imperialist travel writing could be repurposed in support of nationalist causes, but argues that Maxwell’s recruitment as a literary supporter was more of a success for the Moroccan monarchy than for the Algerian FLN. Nevertheless, Maxwell’s connection to Margaret Pope and Ahmed Alaoui demonstrates that the efforts of North African nationalists to recruit prominent Western supporters, described by David Stenner (2019) continued into the 1960s and extended transnationally across the Morocco-Algeria border.