An Island To Oneself
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Titre complet : An Island to Oneself: Six Years on a Desert Island
de Tom Neale
Résumé
This is the story of six years which I spent alone, in two spells on an uninhabited coral atoll half a mile long and three hundred yards wide in the South Pacific. It was two hundred miles from the nearest inhabited island, and I first arrived there on October 7, 1952 and remained alone (with only two yachts calling) until June 24, 1954, when I was taken off ill after a dramatic rescue. I was unable to return to the atoll until April 23, 1960 and this time I remained alone until December 27, 1963
I was fifty when I went to live alone on Suvarov, after thirty years of roaming the Pacific, and in this story I will try to describe my feelings, try to put into words what was, for me, the most remarkable and worthwhile experience of my whole life. I chose to live in the Pacific Islands because life there moves at the sort of pace which you feel God must have had in mind originally when He made the sun to keep us warm and provided the fruits of the earth for the taking.
Table des matières
Author's Note
Introduction by Noel Barber
PART ONE - The Years of Waiting
Chapter 1: Wanderlust in the Sun
Chapter 2: Shopping List for a Desert Island
PART TWO - On the Island: October 1952 - June 1954
Chapter 3: The First Day
Chapter 4: Alone at last
Chapter 5: Fishing, Cooking - and Improvising
Chapter 6: The Killing of the Wild Pigs
Chapter 7: Gardening- and the Chicken "Farm"
Chapter 8: My First Visitors
Chapter 9: Down with Fever
Chapter 10: The Pier--and the Great Storm
Chapter 11: Saved by a Miracle
Chapter 12: Farewell to the Island
PART THREE - Civilisation Again
Chapter 13: Six Frustrating Years
Chapter 14: Return to Suvarov
PART FOUR - On the Island: April 1960 - December 1963
Chapter 15: Visitors by Helicopter
Chapter 16: Five Hours in the Water
Chapter 17: The Castaways
Post Script
Remembrance - by Kenneth R. Vogel (Reproduction from ISLANDS Magazine, Sept/Oct 1987)
Post Post Script - Taori's Notes
Stella’s Epilogue
Island Photography
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