Escape to an Island by Eleanor Alliston

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Includes a letter from John Alliston. Inscribed by author. Marks on right foredge. Tiny mark on blank front page and title page. Body text and binding are still very good. Dust jacket is in very good condition with minor wear and is now enclosed in protective plastic cover.

An enthralling account of the life of this 'Robinson Crusoe' family made for themselves and their children on a remote island across a storm-prone piece of water off Tasmania.

Shortly after WWII, Eleanor Alliston and her husband sold everything they had in England and sailed to Australia in search of independence and freedom. A few months after their arrival in Tasmania, Three Hummock Island, 30 miles off the north coast, was up for sale. Although the Allistons did not manage to buy the lease in the first place, they became managers and sole occupants of the island and entered upon a life which taxed them to the utmost, but from which they never looked back.

First published in 1966.