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Solomon Time

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780349115023

Price: £10.99

ON SALE: 6th June 2002

Genre: Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure / Travel & Holiday / Travel Writing

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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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offers plenty of pleasures.
SUNDAY TIMES
Immensely likeable.
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