The Teatime Islands: Adventures in Britain's Faraway Outposts
Author(s): Ben Fogle
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, the author
- 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.
General Information
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- : pengui
- : pengui
- : 0.248
- : 05 August 2004
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Ben Fogle
- : Paperback
- : 288
- : col. Illustrations, facsims. (some col.), maps, col. ports.
More About The Product
Ben Fogle was the star of the BBC's hit series Castaway 2000. Now presenting Country File, The Teatime Islands is Ben's first book. He lives in London.