Once Were the Happy Isles

ebook ∣ An Account of My Adventurous and Momentous Life in Solomon Islands

By Mark Otter

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ebook

Author

Mark Otter

Publisher

Austin Macauley Publishers LLC

Release

30 November 2018

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Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction

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This book relates the author's extraordinarily adventurous experiences - all absolutely true and without any exaggeration - of visiting, living, and working in the Solomon Islands, primarily as an Australian diplomat in the mid-1980s. Some of the experiences related in the book include:

  • A momentous 'first contact' encounter with isolated people.
  • Stories of mysterious happenings which remain unexplained to outsiders to this day.
  • Personal and inside accounts of the so-called 'ethnic tensions' from 1998 to 2003.
  • Surviving a plane crash.
  • Living in idyllic but very basic villages.
  • Interwoven among the adventurous stuff, there are stories of some humorous and deeply personal moments affecting the author and his family..Ongoing themes interspersed throughout the book include: extraordinary once-in-a-lifetime, life-changing adventurous experiences, heart-rending personal interactions and the juxtaposition of career ambition against much more meaningful people-based human development.

    • Format

    ebook

    Author

    Mark Otter

    Publisher

    Austin Macauley Publishers LLC

    Release

    30 November 2018

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    Subjects

    Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction
    Once Were the Happy Isles