Once Were the Happy Isles - Mark Otter
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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. * *…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
Mark Otter has been described as a 'serial careerist'. He has been a naval officer, a diplomat, an academic, a senior officer in international development and environment organisations and, now in his semi-retirement, he has entered a new phase of his life as a swimmer, a swimming instructor and coach, and an author. He has lived and worked in five countries in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe, and has visited countless others for both career and private purposes. Among other qualifications, all now more-or-less redundant, he holds a PhD in Political Science and International Studies from the University of Queensland. Originally from Sydney, Mark now lives in Brisbane.