My Tropic Isle

Their quiet island life began with a rifle shot—and nearly ended when a dead bloodwood crashed down in the night, falling toward the camp instead of away from it.

In 1896, E. J. Banfield and a small party of friends camped on an island off North Queensland and found the place they wanted to call home. A year later, he and his life-partner began building a hut, learning island life the hard way: blistered hands, meagre meals, unfamiliar work, and the ever-present threat of white ants. Banfield tells it with a wry eye, finding both toil and wonder in a life far from society’s bustle. Even the trees seem to have their own ideas about the settlers’ plans. What else will this isle make of their attempts to tame it?

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