Once Were The Happy Isles

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.

• | Author: Otter Mark, 1st
• | Publisher: Austin Macauley
• | Publication Date: Nov 30, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 116 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1641827742
• | ISBN-13: 9781641827744