num_pages: 285
description: 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.
language: English
title: Solomon Time: Adventures in the South Pacific
publisher: Time Warner Books Uk