Dion Perry

Island Life (eBook, ePUB)

The Story of Clarke Island - 1984 to 1990

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Clarke Island is a windswept place in Eastern Bass Strait, that contained no other residents and could only be accessed by light plane or boat when weather permitted. Having never seen the place, Dion and his family moved there in March of 1984 with no plan B. They arrived with little provisions and few possessions to an old farm house invested with poisonous black house spiders and overrun with mice. With no way off, all they could do was make the best of it. Over the next six years, with little or no outside help, they had to contend with a blocked septic tank, a bee swarm in the house chimney, broken machinery, telephone outages, cantankerous horses, wild cattle that could not be mustered and the extreme isolation of living on an island. To survive they had to learn to live in harmony with the island by forging a semi self-sufficient life style in which they not only grew a garden and kept milking goats, but learned to live off the bounty of the land and sea. For one boy, living on Clarke Island was a once in a lifetime opportunity and this is his story.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Balboa Press AU
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765202678
• Artikelnr.: 75261075

Autorenporträt

Dion is an Australian who was born in Townsville Queensland. He spent the first eight years of his life living in a caravan travelling around the eastern side of Australia, before moving to Tasmania when he was 8. He attended university in Hobart where he did a BA with majors in sociology and Aboriginal studies. He writes mainly speculative fiction in the genres of science fiction and fantasy, but also writes autobiographies. In May of 2021 he was diagnosed with viral-miocarditis and in September of 2023 he underwent a heart transplant. While the transplant was successful, the anti-rejection drugs destroyed his kidneys and he now undergoes heamodialisis three times a week. In time, he is expected to have a kidney transplant. He lives in Crookwell in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales with his wife, dog and cat.