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Peach blossom lake lie in the clear the intersection of Xin County and the intersection of Land of Peach Blossoms and town, from the intersection of swallow and the intersection of rock and 1st Luis. The lake surface of peach blossom is broad, the lake strandline is 20 -km-long, the reservoir depth is about 37 meters, lake water is bright and clean like the mirror, surrounded by hills all around, there are several dozen green hills that are interspersed in the lake among them, there are caves with stalactites and stalagmites in several mountains, the lake water leads to the hole, can take the sightseeing boat to enter the hole to visit from the lake.

When at dawn and dusk, the fog curls up on the lake of the peach blossom, the scenery is unreal and beautiful, make people completely relaxed and happy.

The national Forest Park in the Germany and Britain lies within the boundaries of Guangdong Province, the district belongs to the hilly country of mountain area of the south mountain range mountain range southeast offshoot, the average annual temperature 20.7oC in the district, the rainfall of annual mean is 1876 millimetres, typical subtropical monsoon climate makes here temperate in climate throughout the year, the rainfall is plentiful. The fine climatic condition is pregnant with the large stretch of forest, form good forest and natural landscape, because the influence applied by the karst for a long time of rock ground form that meanwhile, the district is inner, form numerous grotesque peak spectacular rocky peaks, deep and remote hole underground rivers. The national Forest Park in the Germany and Britain becomes the ideal place of people’s recreation keeping in good health, travel in holiday with their beautiful, simple and honest natural sceneries.

Evaluate in appraising committee’s third session in the second forest scenery resource of China on December 12, 2000 that passed in the national Forest Park in the Germany and Britain, and was approved by State Forestry Bureau and set up on December 28, 2000. Contain the extremely abundant resources of animals and plants in the Forest Park: 2325 kinds of higher plants, are under the jurisdiction of 272 subjects and 1035 genera, 23 kinds of first and second class plants which the country laid special stress on protecting among them; Wild the intersection of vertebrate and 28 the intersection of mesh and 72 the intersection of family and 351, national key first grade watch for animals 4 kinds among them, 45 kinds of Second Grade, 132 kinds of rare endangered animals. The whole area in the national Forest Park in the Germany and Britain is 107,000 hectares, area occupies the first place in Forest Park of similar country of China, forest coverage rate 71.4%. Include treasure in eight major beauty spots of scenic spot 115 such as palace the blue sky hole, celestial bridge underground river, the corridor of Xifeng forest of Great Britain, water of long lake show brilliantly. The grand peak stands erect in the national Forest Park in the Germany and Britain, cliffside waterfall shed spring, a sea of clouds of fog tide, spectacular rocky peak of the strangely shaped pine, gorge deep and remote hole, the intersection of plateau and the intersection of Pinghu, virgin forest, rare birds and animals, scenic spots and historical sites,etc. and grand clever beautiful natural landscape and of long standing and well established ancient the intersection of Great Britain and culture get along swimmingly with each other, form the magnificent mountains and rivers picture scroll of each.

The national Forest Park in the Germany and Britain is a green aircraft carrier that the people of Germany and Britain of Guangdong made meticulously, Germany and Britain people welcome guest that everybody come from afar with world, vast mind and romantic enthusiasm that her adopt more, let the guests personally experience the feeling substantially as belonging to.

Stand in the location: Shenzhen Pinghu Town of Guangdong Province

Zipcode: 518111

History: Built in 1911

Position: 2352 kilometers from Beijing West Railway Station, 20 kilometers (Line nine of Beijing) from the station of Shenzhen Stand 127 kilometers from Guangzhou, stand 20 kilometers (Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway) from Shenzhen

Belong to: Under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou railway ‘ Group) Company Co., Ltd. of Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway administers

Grade: It is four grade stations now

Passenger traffic: Handle to passengers and take advantage of lowering; The luggage, parcel are checked

Freight transportation: Handle the completed car goods to send to; Do not handle the dangerous freight to send to

The whole area of nature reserve of mountain of hair worn in a bun or coil mountain nature reserve cloud hair worn in a bun or coil of cloud is 2700 hectares, lie in the middle part of Xinfeng county, is located in the middle subtropical zone, possesses the characteristics of climate in the mountain region, the main protection target is evergreen foliage forest and rare animals and plants of middle subtropical zone, it is one of the comprehensive nature reserves in the province. Gather around and use 26 kinds of rare endangered wild animals and plants that laid special stress on protecting in the protection zone, such as clouded leopard, leopard, black muntjac, boa, Squama Manis, serow, silver pheasant, Lin She, China cypress, case wood, Palestinian halberd, three sharp China firs,etc.. There are numerous scenic spots that form naturally, such as inferior old woman’s hair worn in a bun or coil, lion’s peak, day dog stone, hanging the clock stone, sleeping bueaty, rescuing sub Goddess of Mercy, cliffside waterfall in the west hole,etc..

Bicycling Magazine’s
Training Techniques for Cyclists
Greater Power, Faster Speed, Longer Endurance, Better Skills

Here’s how to achieve optimum cycling performance through proven training techniques from the sport’s top experts. Whether you want to ride a competitive century or just want to get the maximum health benefits from cycling, this book will make it happen.

Discover how to:
* Increase your speed and endurance.
* Eat for peak performance.
* Reduce injuries through weight training and breathing techniques.
* Increase mental focus for great rides.
* Avoid injuries and exhaustion caused by overtraining.
* Attack hills smartly and handle turns like a champ.

You’ll also find:
* Practical pointers from top cycling coaches.
* Exercises to help improve your overall cycling fitness.
* A 26-week training schedule to put you at the head of the pack.
* Winter training programs to keep you fit off-season.

ABOUT THE EDITOR
Ed Pavelka has been riding bicycles for fun, fitness, and competition since the mid-1970s. His professional writing career includes 20 cycling books. He was Bicycling magazine’s executive editor for 10 years and served as the magazine’s director of new ventures.
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

BEN HEWITT writes about sports and the outdoors for a wide variety of publications, including Bicycling, Men’s Journal, Mountain Bike, Outside, and Skiing. He currently resides in Vermont.

Proven training programs and pointers from cycling’s most knowledgeable coaches–whether you’re cycling competitively or just to keep fit!

Now revised and updated with the latest advances in the sport, this book will help any rider achieve optimum cycling performance through proven training techniques from the sport’s top experts.

You’ll find exercises to help improve your overall cycling fitness, a 26-week training schedule to put you at the head of the pack, and winter training programs to keep you fit off-season.

Bicycling Magazine’s Training Techniques for Cyclists (Revised: Greater Power, Faster Speed, Longer Endurance, Better Skills

The Complete Book of Long-Distance Cycling: Build the Strength, Skills, and Confidence to Ride as Far as You Want

These days, bike riders, like runners, are not satisfied with just a tour around the neighborhood. Long-distance challenges like the AIDS Ride and Race Across America (RAAM) have grown in popularity. Burke and Pavelka, both with years of experience competing, writing about the sport, and working with professional cyclists, team up for this thorough resource that includes all facets of long-distance biking. Not only do they cover the basics, such as best bike gear, proper nutrition, and what type of bike to buy, but they give the lowdown on the latest equipment and explain bike technology without oversimplifying. Readers will become familiar with bike lingo such as dual-suspension, aero bars, and lactate threshold. Serious bikers will surely mark, part 2, “The Rides,” which includes training schedules, charts, and race tactics to prepare beginners and experienced cyclists for Centuries (100 mile rides) to Ultra’s (any distance over 100 miles). Although the book includes a small section on women’s issues, a good supplement would be The Female Cyclist (Velo Press, 1999). Recommended to build any cyclist’s knowledge and confidence to conquer long rides. Brenda Barrera
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Ride Strong, Ride Long … Whether Your Goal Is 30 Miles or 3,000

From two of the country’s top cycling experts the most comprehensive guide ever to achieving the strength, skills, and strategies you need for long-distance riding. Whether you’re training for day rides, centuries, or cross-country trips, The Complete Book of Long-Distance Cycling helps you choose the right equipment, train step-by-step, and map out your riding strategy so that you can go the distance.

Discover how to:
* Make the most of every hour on your bike
* Build your mileage base efficiently
* Customize your training to suit your personality and physical capabilities
* Build extra training time into your hectic schedule
* Avoid injuries and the dangers of overtraining
* Achieve the mental edge you need to ride farther and faster
* Train for both road and off-road touring
* Choose cycling gear that goes and goes
* Eat for the long haul– nutrtion before, during, and after your rides

To help you achieve your riding goals, The Complete Book of Long-Distance Cycling gives you complete, step-by-step training programs for riding a half-century, century, double century, and beyond. You’ll also find strategies and techniques for special situations, such as riding in bed weather and riding at night. Published by the world’s leading authority on bicycling, this informative guide is a must-have for all cycling enthusiasts.

The Complete Book of Long-Distance Cycling: Build the Strength, Skills, and Confidence to Ride as Far as You Want

This is the best how-to book on drifting, one of the hottest new motorsports in America. Written by a member of the original group of professional American drifters, it expertly covers car preparation, driving techniques, competition rules, and much more. Drawing on an extensive storehouse of knowledge and using full-color photography, diagrams, and charts to support his text, Calvin Wan explains the theories behind every aspect of the sport. For those who want to do it, those who like to watch, and those who simply seek to understand, this is the quintessential guide to drifting.

27-year-old Calvin Wan has been driving professionally for twelve years. Although a professional drifter since 2003, he started his motorsports career as a roadracer. Calvin lives in San Francisco, CA.

Drifting started as a niche motorsport among Japanese-American Californians, but has quickly evolved into a full-fledged competitive motorsport involving everyone from kids in the Midwest to a 55-year-old World Rally Championship Driver.

This is the first how-to book to focus on both how to properly prepare a car to compete in drifting events, and how to drive it effectively in those events.Written by one of the original American drifters, it expertly covers car preparation, driving techniques, competition rules, and much more.

Drawing on an extensive storehouse of knowledge and using full-color photography, diagrams, and charts to support his text, Calvin Wan explains the theories behind every aspect of the sport. For those who want to do it, those who like to watch, and those who simply seek to understand, this is the quintessential guide to drifting.

Calvin Wan’s: Drifting Performance Handbook (Motorbooks Workshop)

Drifting: Sideways From Japan to America

Grassroots Motorsports, August 2006

Antonio Alvendia has been our designated drift photographer for quite some time, and he is about to release a book on the subject. Drifting: Sideways from Japan to America covers the evolution of drifting here in the States. Its like the Dogtown and Z-Boys documentary, Alvendia explains, although this isnt a movie and doesnt cover skateboarding.

Hot4s.com (AUS), December 2006 (visits per month unavailable)

If you need a healthy dose of drifting culture, youll find it in this title, which really delves a little deeper than most, drawing you into the faces and atmosphere of the scene. The book largely focuses on the arrival of drifting in the US and its impact on ol Uncle Sam. There are large color photos spread over 127-odd pages, along with thoughtful, engaging captions. Of course, for some reason we ended up in the back of the book at the Umbrella Girls in Drifting section, though theres a huge historical background provided on the sport towards the front, followed by the series of races that heralded the sports arrival in the States.

Dreamed up by drivers trying to outdo each other on the mountain passes of Japan, the art of the sideways descent of a switchbackwhat Wired described as the fishtailing ballet of burning rubber called driftinghas made it to the United States in a big way. What began as a new kind of daredevil driving among teens has, over two decades, become a sanctioned sport, making its way across the Pacific through video games and magazines, anime and the Internet, to take root in Californias fertile underground racing culture.
Drifting: Sideways From Japan to America

If you subscribe to the opinion that televisions, Japanese lanterns, and electric guitars are not essential camping equipment, The Best in Tent Camping: New England should be your constant companion.

Each campground profile includes:
Detailed campground maps
Key information such as fees, restrictions, and dates of operation
Driving directions to the campgrounds
Ratings for beauty, privacy, spaciousness, quiet, security, and cleanliness

The Best in Tent Camping: New England guides you to the quietest, most beautiful, most secure, and best-managed campgrounds in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

Lafe Low is a lifelong New Englander. He has spent his life camping, skiing, biking, hiking, and paddling his way throughout the People’s Republic of New England. He is the former editor of Explore New England and Outdoor Adventure magazines. He currently lives in the Boston area and works at CXO Media to help finance his funhog lifestyle.

If you subscribe to the opinion that televisions, Japanese lanterns, and electric guitars are not essential camping equipment, The Best in Tent Camping should be your constant companion. The Best in Tent Camping: New England is a guidebook for tent campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene campsites. It’s the perfect resource if you blanch at the thought of pitching a tent on a concrete slab, trying to sleep through the blare of another camper’s boombox, or waking to find your tent surrounded by a convoy of RVs. Painstakingly selected from hundreds of campgrounds, this book guides you to the quietest, most beautiful, most secure, and best-managed campgrounds in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Each campground profile provides essential details on facilities, reservations, fees, and restrictions, as well as an accurate, easy-to-read map making the campground a snap to locate.The Best in Tent Camping: New England: A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos (Best Tent Camping)

AMC’s Best Backpacking in New England

Matt Heid is former senior editor of AMC Outdoors and a regular contributor to the magazine. He leads trips and teaches classes in outdoor photography, natural history, and navigation. This is his third book.

This new guide from the publishers of the Best Day Hikes series provides a comprehensive look at what you need to plan a memorable backpacking trip in a region known for its rugged terrain. Youll explore the wildest, least-traveled trails on 33 trips that are rated by difficultyfrom Easy to Epic. Youll read about nine wilderness areas, eight state forests, four state parks, two national forests, and a variety of other protected landscapes. Each trip description includes regional locator and trip maps, as well as photos of the area taken by author Matt Heid.

Heid maximizes your wilderness experience by selecting loop hikes, conveniently eliminating the need to cross roads or shuttle a car. Overnight optionsincluding camp sites and lean-tosare also listed, as well as tips on safety and gear to better prepare you for a challenging and rewarding backcountry adventure.

“Thanks to Laroche and Waldman for a fun book. If you enjoy collecting cards, this is a fine addition to your library.” www.TBOblogs.com (January 2012)

“Whether you collect modern, vintage, stickers, non-sports, Gem Mint 10s, etc, etc. you know the score and so do Waldman and Laroche. Got ‘Em Got ‘Em Need ‘Em is must-read material for anyone that has enjoyed or is curious about pulling back that wax or foil wrapping, getting that tingle of excitement, and then enjoying flipping through little 2 x 3 works of art. I eagerly await the next 100.” www.CardboardConnection.com (December 2011)

Stephen Laroche is a longtime trading card collector and a brand manager for In The Game, Inc., a Canada-based trading card company. He lives in Belleville, Ontario. Jon Waldman is a writer and lifetime card collector. He has written for a variety of magazines and newspapers, including Hockey News and Winnipeg Men magazine.He is a coauthor of SLAM! Wrestling. He lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Days gone by are relived with some of the trading card industrys most well-known experts in this nostalgic look back at one of the most popular hobbies in history. Covering baseball, basketball, football, hockey, boxing, and golf, this unique book offers a countdown of the greatest sports cards ever produced and the players and personalities involved. This multisport collection delightfully counts down the best 100 cards from the business while offering interviews, up-to-date history, and stories about the cards and their depicted players. Collectors and sports fans will especially appreciate the bonusin-depth look at the best innovations in the business, the worst blunders, and the special tribute to the hobby’s boom era in the 1990s. Formore than100 years, kids of all ages have enjoyed the thrill of collecting sports cards, making this retrospective look at the hobby a thorough and long-lasting collectible ode toa much-loved pastime.

“Thanks to Laroche and Waldman for a fun book. If you enjoy collecting cards, this is a fine addition to your library.” www.TBOblogs.com

“Whether you collect modern, vintage, stickers, non-sports, Gem Mint 10s, etc, etc. you know the score and so do Waldman and Laroche. Got ‘Em Got ‘Em Need ‘Em is must-read material for anyone that has enjoyed or is curious about pulling back that wax or foil wrapping, getting that tingle of excitement, and then enjoying flipping through little 2 x 3 works of art. I eagerly await the next 100.” www.CardboardConnection.com

Got ‘Em, Got ‘Em, Need ‘Em: A Fan’s Guide to Collecting the Top 100 Sports Cards of All Time

The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History’s Most Desired Baseball Card

“Lively and well-researched.” — Sports Illustrated.com

Only a few dozen T206 Wagners are known to still exist, having been released in limited numbers just after the turn of the twentieth century. Most, with their creases and stains, look like they’ve been around for nearly one hundred years. But oneThe Cardappears to have defied the travails of time. Its sharp corners and still-crisp portrait make it the single-most famousand most desiredbaseball card on the planet, valued today at more than two million dollars. It has transformed a simple hobby into a billion-dollar industry that is at times as lawless as the Wild West. Everything about The Card, which has made men wealthy as well as poisoned lifelong relationships, is fraught with controversyfrom its uncertain origins to the nagging possibility that it might not be exactly as it seems.

In this intriguing, eye-opening, and groundbreaking look at a uniquely American obsession, award-winning investigative reporters Michael O’Keeffe and Teri Thompson follow The Card’s trail from a Florida flea market to the hands of the world’s most prominent collectors. The Card sheds a fascinating new light on a world of counterfeiters, con men, and the people who profit from what used to be a pastime for kids.

The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History’s Most Desired Baseball Card

“It is everything that made the first book so hugely successful – endearing, heartwarming, self-deprecating, sometimes surreal.” Evening Standard” –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Chris Stewart prepared for life on a mountain farm in Spain with jobs of doubtful relevance. After leaving Genesis (he drummed on the first album), he joined a circus, learnt how to shear sheep, crewed a yacht in Greece, went to China for the Rough Guides, gained a pilot’s license in Los Angeles, and completed a course in French cking. Despite the extraordinary success of his first two books, Chris, Ana and their daughter Chloe continue to live on their farm, with their numerous dogs, cats, chickens, sheep and one misanthropic parrot. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Chris Stewart’s “Driving Over Lemons” told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras – an oddball region of Spain, south of Granada. Funny, insightful and real, the book became an international bestseller. “A Parrot in a Pepper Tree”, the sequel to “Lemons”, follows the lives of Chris, Ana and their daughter, Chloe, as they get to grips with a misanthropic parrot who joins their home, Spanish school life, neighbours in love, their amazement at Chris appearing on the bestseller lists . . and their shock at discovering that their beloved valley is once more under threat of a dam. “A Parrot in the Pepper Tree” also looks back on Chris Stewart’s former life – the hard times shearing in midwinter Sweden (and driving across the frozen sea to reach island farms); his first taste of Spain, learning flamenco guitar as a 20-year old; and his illustrious music career, drumming for his schl band Genesis (sacked at 17, he never quite became Phil Collins), and then for a circus.

“It is everything that made the first book so hugely successful – endearing, heartwarming, self-deprecating, sometimes surreal.” Evening Standard” –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

A Parrot in the Pepper Tree (Windsor Selection)

Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat

*Starred Review* Fans of rock trivia might know the author as one of the founders of the band Genesis. He was its first drummer, but by his own admission, he wasnt very good, and they turfed him out before they made it big. Luckily, Stewart had other skills, among them a wicked good ability to tell stories. In this highly entertaining memoir, set in the early 1980s, the author was offered the opportunity to skipper a yacht in the Greek Islands. Never one to let a little thing like a complete and total lack of sailing ability stand in his way, he jumped at the chance. The book is kind of the reversal of the fish-out-of-water story (a mammal-into-water tale, perhaps?), and its full of comic elements: finding the yacht in utter disrepair, working with two boat hands named Nikos, setting the boat on fire, that kind of thing. Despite his less-than-stellar performance as a yacht captain, Stewart followed his Greek Islands adventure by signing on with a cross-Atlantic re-creation of Leif Erikssons original route to Vinlandall right, he didnt exactly know what or where Vinland was, but it sounded like it might be fun. So is the book: Stewart really is a quite gifted writer, gleefully poking fun at himself and thoroughly entertaining the reader. –David Pitt

Chris Stewart had a long and eclectic list of jobs. From some of the most glamorous careers he was original drummer in Genesis – to the more offbeat – a sheep shearer and circus performer – he had done it allor almost all. So when he is offered the chance to captain a sailboat in the Greek islands one summer, something he had never done before, he jumps at the chance. Ever the optimist, Stewart is undaunted by the fact that hed never actually sailed before!

So begins the hilarious and wild adventures of Three Ways to Capsize a Boat. From setting the boat on fire not once, but several times in the Aegean Sea to his not-so-grand arrival in Spetses to meet the owners of the boat , Stewart quickly catches the sailing bug. By the end of the summer, as he is facing the dreary prospect of going back to sheep shearing, he jumps at the chance to be part of a crew to follow Viking Leif Eirikssons historic journey across the Atlantic Ocean. Five months on a small sailboat with seven other people in the freezing waters of the Atlantic would sound like punishment to most people, but not Stewart! He takes it all in stride and always with his unfailing optimism and good spirits. From coming to terms with the long, cold nights at sea and unchanging cuisine to battling intense seasickness and managing to go to the bathroom during a massive storm , Stewart keeps his good humorbut learns, in the end, that perhaps the best things in life are worth coming ashore for.

Three Ways to Capsize a Boat is travel writing at its best, crackling with Chris Stewarts zest for life, irresistible humor, and unerring lack of foresight. Dry land never looked more welcoming!

Three Ways to Capsize a Boat is a charming and lyrical read, awash with the joy of discovery, and Stewart is an immensely likeable narratorThe key to his popularity is his honest and self-effacing determination – as discussed during a mid-Atlantic storm – to live a rewarding life. Guardian, UK

Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat

Alexander Selkirk, a difficult and unpleasant British sailor, was put ashore at his own request on Mas a Tierra Island off the coast of Chile in 1704 and remained alone there until 1709. His story came to the attention of Daniel Defoe, and thereby hangs a tradition. Although isolated, Selkirk, upon whom Defoe modeled his fictional hero Robinson Crusoe, did not have a terribly trying situation, for he had fresh water, fruit, wild goats, shellfish and certain amenities. Others in comparable situations were not so fortunate, as Simmons ( The Big Book of Adventure Travel ) makes clear in these accounts of eight castaways–some by coercion, some by their own choice–ranging from the 18th century to (believe it or not) 1977. Just as the adventures of Selkirk/Crusoe enthralled readers in 1719, the chronicles here will surely prove exciting to readers today.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

YA-True-life descriptions of shipwrecks, survival, ingenuity, and (usually) rescue, all of which make Robinson Crusoe’s exploits look like a picnic on the beach. Alexander Selkirk, upon whose adventures Crusoe was based, was washed ashore on an island west of Chile, where he lived quite handily until his rescue four years later. Part of this book’s fascination is that readers are told how the various survivors spent the remainder of their lives after they returned home. There is also a good bit of information about early voyages to the South Atlantic and the Pacific, the sealing and whaling trades, and life among the natives and early settlers in the South Seas. One of the accounts is of a woman who, along with her baby and Chinese servant, died of starvation on an island on the Great Barrier Reef. She left a journal detailing the bizarre circumstances of their demise. The incredible obstacles overcome by these resouceful, persevering souls will leave modern readers slack-jawed. No two stories are alike, and all are compelling.
Judy McAloon, Potomac Library, Prince William County, VA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Castaway in Paradise explores the reality in the myth through the exciting stories of castaways who, because of shipwrecks, perfidious sea captains, or their own choice, found themselves true-life Robinson Crusoes.

Castaway in Paradise: The Incredible Adventures of True-Life Robinson Crusoes

Castaway

Lucy Irvine was born in 1956 in Whitton, Middlesex.She ran away from school very early and had no full-time education after the age of thirteen.She has been employed as a charlady, monkey-keeper, waitress, stonemason’s mate, life model, pastry-cook and concierge.She has also worked with disabled people and as a clerk at the Inland Revenue.Lucy Irvine is the author of a novel, One is One, as well as Castaway and an account of her early years, Runaway.She has three sons and lives in the Highlands of Scotland. –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Writer seeks “wife” for a year on tropical island.’ The opportunity to escape from it all was irresistible. Lucy Irvine answered the advertisement – and found herself alone on a remote desert island with a ‘husband’ she hardly knew. Lucy Irvine fell in love with the seductive, if cruel, beauty of that untouched Eden, whose power to enslave and enchant her never slackened throughout the whole of her amazing adventure. Uncompromisingly candid and sometimes shocking, Castaway is her compulsively readable account of a desert island dream which threatened to turn into a nightmare of illness, thirst and personal antipathy.

Castaway