An Island to Oneself: Six Years Alone on a Desert IslandA re issue of the long out of print 1966 classic, this is the story of one New Zealander brave enough to do what we have all now and then dreamed of doing go and live alone on a desert island. In his youth an ordinary seaman and for years a shopkeeper in the Cook Islands, Tom Neale was in his fifties when he turned his back on society to live alone on a South Pacific atoll named Suwarrow. With him he took nothing but a couple of cats, some bric a brac