Solomon Time : Adventures in the South Pacific Paperback / softback
by Will Randall
Paperback / softback
Description
Echoing the experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson - who spent several years in the South Pacific - here is the story of a contemporary writer who lived in and came to love the Solomon Islands. Most unexpectedly, Will Randall, once a happy schoolteacher, found himself dispatched to a small village on a not very large island, far out in the vastness of the South Pacific.
His mission (although he had hardly chosen to accept it): - to fulfil the dying wishes of the 'Commander' and help the local people set up a money-making community project.
The Solomon Islands, islands lost in time - Solomon Time; these little gems of land scattered across the ocean, must be the last sanctuary on our shrivelled planet not yet overshadowed by the Golden Arches or encapsulated in a Coca-Cola bubble.
Everyone has dreamed at some time of living on a desert island.
Here is the unvarnished truth. Sharks, turtles, a band of unruly chickens, a cast of extraordinary characters, and a bird called the Spangled Drongo, accompany Will Randall through some of the most fascinating and certainly funniest scenes to be found in travel writing since Gerald Durrell.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:06/06/2002
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- ISBN:9780349115023
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:06/06/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780349115023
