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The Teatime Islands: Adventures in Britain's Faraway Outposts

By Ben Fogle

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Year
2004
ISBN
0141010460, 9780141010465
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
9 MB (9326749 bytes)
Pages
288\0
Time added
2013-11-05 10:44:02

Description

Welcomed with open arms, derided as a pig-ignorant tourist and occasionally mocked mercilessly for his trouble, Ben Fogle visited the last flag-flying outposts of the British Empire. With caution, dignity and a spare pair of pants thrown to the wind, he set out to discover just exactly who would choose to live on islands as remote as these and - more importantly - tried to figure out exactly why. Landing himself on islands so isolated, wind-swept, barren and just damned peculiar that they might have Robinson Crusoe thinking twice, Fogle: almost becomes lunch on the appropriately named Carcass Island; gets deported from Pitcairn for being both a spy and a smuggler; uncovers the story of the tyrant who became St Helena's most unwilling and least popular guest; and, witnesses a shark attack from a respectable distance. Why he went, what he did when he got there and how exactly he got back in one piece makes for an eye-opening but affectionate look into life in these unique, peculiar places.

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