Glass , Repetto , Swain , Green , Rogers , Hagan , Lavarello : until recently those were the only seven family names in use on Tristan . Now there is an eighth – Patterson – an Englishman married to a Tristanian .
When the house and the island were sold to the Curwen family in 1781, they renamed it Isabella, after their daughter. Descendants of the family continued to live on the island until the 1990s. LOCATION: 54.3624°N 2.0338°W GRID ...
L a ike many sailors before and since , the South Sea islands haunted and inspired legendary author Robert Louis Stevenson . ... Lowell D. Holmes ' new book is a magnificent literary voyage to " Treasured Islands .
The explorer's guide to over 200 of the most beautiful and intriguing islands around Britain Peter Naldrett. 242 242 274 274 244 244 276 244 277 246 280 281 248 248 248 250 251 282 282 252 284 253 285 254 287 255 288 256 289 257 290 258 ...
Treasured Islands
Since he was a boy, Joey Martin had lived life on the edge.
Holmes describes Stevenson's fascination & respect for the island cultures. This is a superbly written account, based upon painstaking research & newly discovered documentation of Stevenson's final years.
Treasured Islands: Cruising the South Seas with Robert Louis Stevenson