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Title: An Island to Oneself: Six Years on a Desert Island by Tom Neale, Noel Barber ISBN: 0-918024-76-5 Publisher: Ox Bow Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1990 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.95 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Brilliant Read.
Comment: After having visited the Cook Islands in 1999 and 2000, and seeing Tom Neale's grave on Rarotonga, I sought out this book, recently buying it from amazon.com and have now finally finished reading it.
I would heartily recommend this book to anyone - but especially to those who deal with daily struggles, whatever they may be. This book, and Tom Neale as a person, mean so much to me personally. I am so encouraged by Tom Neale's determination, dedication, and motivation. I feel that if he, as a man in his late 50's and 60's, can go and live on a desert island, completely fending for himself - that I can do anything. This book really is that motivational. And if you don't find it so, you are missing something.
My absolute favorite parts of the book are in which the chance coincidences arise in Tom's life - his being saved from illness and perhaps death, for instance, by one of the Rockefeller clan who just happened to be passing by. And his anecdotes about wanting a cigarette, or some rum, show him to be completely human and "just like the rest of us."
_An Island To Oneself_ makes me long to return to the Cook Islands someday, if only they were not so far away. Tom Neale's dislike of civilization, and the way things are in daily life, make it no wonder that anyone would want to escape to such an idyll that was (and is) Suwarrow. As Tom Neale has said of the island, "Time passes here as it was meant to."
If only we could all be so lucky.
If I had a guardian angel, I would say it would be Tom Neale. He is inspiration at its utmost and I admire him so.
Rating: 5
Summary: a marvellous island book!
Comment: "An Island To Oneself" is a real captivating book! Tom Neale describes his way of living - surviving - on Suwarow, a remote island in the South-Pacific. The reader really feels as if he were on the spot while reading this book! The adventures Tom Neale experiences and the way he copes with problems, the rare people he meets,how he gets used to the rythm of the isle.. i found it a superb book! One of Tom Neales friends is the writer Robert Dean Frisbie. I recommend to read the work of his daughter Johnny Frisbie (at the age of 13!), "Miss Ulysses From Puka-Puka", who lived on Suwarow with her father,two sisters and brother during several months in the forties.
Rating: 5
Summary: My very favourite
Comment: I first read An Island To Oneself in 1977. I have re read it at least 10 times since. When I am ill, or sad it is one of the books I reach for first.
I've never been to the Islands, but grew up in New Zealand. Neale was a Kiwi like myself, and somehow his no nonsense approach to living his dream of solitute reflects a big part of the Kiwi psyche.
This is undoubtedly my favourite book. Buy it and enjoy it. And maybe one day you too will live that dream.
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Title: Book of Puka Puka by Robert Dean Frisbie ISBN: 0935180273 Publisher: Mutual Publishing Pub. Date: 01 February, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Castaway in Paradise: The Incredible Adventures of True-Life Robinson Crusoes by James C. Simmons ISBN: 1574090666 Publisher: Sheridan House Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. Banfield ISBN: 1929516150 Publisher: Dixon-Price Publishing Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: The Blue of Capricorn by Eugene Burdick ISBN: 0935180362 Publisher: Mutual Publishing Pub. Date: 01 February, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Rarotonga & the Cook Islands (LONELY PLANET RARATONGA AND THE COOK ISLANDS) by Errol Hunt, Nancy Keller ISBN: 174059083X Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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