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Own a desert island for the price of an apartment
Mortgages - real horror and true bondage in which a person gets their own free will. And after all the money that you pay for the best is not an apartment, you could buy a whole island! and entered an enterprising Englishman. We look at him and his island in the continuation of the post!
When the Englishman Brendon Grimshaw (Brendon Grimshaw) was forty, he quit his job and newspaper editor started a new life. For 13 thousand dollars, he bought a tiny uninhabited island in the Seychelles, and moved there permanently.
By this time the island for 50 years, untouched by human hands. As befits a truly Robinson, Brandon found a companion from among the natives. His name was Rene Laforten Friday. At the Brandon Rene began building his new house. While Rene came to the island only periodically, Brandon lived on it for decades, leaving nowhere. Alone.
For 39 years, Grimshaw and Laforten planted with his own hands 16 thousand trees and built a nearly 5 kilometers of trails. In 2007, Rene Laforten died, and Brandon was all alone on the island.
He was 81. He drew on the island of 2,000 new species of birds and started more than a hundred giant tortoises that are elsewhere in the world (including the Seychelles) were on the verge of extinction. Through the efforts of Grimshaw at once deserted island is now two-thirds of the fauna of Seychelles. Abandoned piece of land turned into a real paradise.
Several years ago, the Prince of Saudi Arabia suggested Brendon Grimshaw for the island of 50 million dollars, but Robinson refused. "I do not want the rich island has become a favorite vacation spot. It is better to let it be a national park, which can enjoy every ».
And he made sure that in 2008 the island declared a national park really.
When the Englishman Brendon Grimshaw (Brendon Grimshaw) was forty, he quit his job and newspaper editor started a new life. For 13 thousand dollars, he bought a tiny uninhabited island in the Seychelles, and moved there permanently.
By this time the island for 50 years, untouched by human hands. As befits a truly Robinson, Brandon found a companion from among the natives. His name was Rene Laforten Friday. At the Brandon Rene began building his new house. While Rene came to the island only periodically, Brandon lived on it for decades, leaving nowhere. Alone.
For 39 years, Grimshaw and Laforten planted with his own hands 16 thousand trees and built a nearly 5 kilometers of trails. In 2007, Rene Laforten died, and Brandon was all alone on the island.
He was 81. He drew on the island of 2,000 new species of birds and started more than a hundred giant tortoises that are elsewhere in the world (including the Seychelles) were on the verge of extinction. Through the efforts of Grimshaw at once deserted island is now two-thirds of the fauna of Seychelles. Abandoned piece of land turned into a real paradise.
Several years ago, the Prince of Saudi Arabia suggested Brendon Grimshaw for the island of 50 million dollars, but Robinson refused. "I do not want the rich island has become a favorite vacation spot. It is better to let it be a national park, which can enjoy every ».
And he made sure that in 2008 the island declared a national park really.
