Following Thoreau’s different drummer, Banfield left journalism to live on Dunk Island off the coast of tropical Queensland. He writes of beachcombing, the birds and their rights, coral gardens, the tyranny of clothes and the virtues of the papaw, and of the island’s Aboriginal people, in a section whose outlook is that of 1908.
A classic of Australian nature writing, beloved by anyone who dreams of an island of their own. Download the free EPUB.