The man left everything and went to his own desert island
Forty-year-old Englishman Brandon Grimshaw quit his job as a newspaper editor in 1973 and moved to his own uninhabited island in the Seychelles, where he began a completely new life.
Inspired by his act, we decided to share this unusual story.
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For more than 50 years, the island was completely forgotten and abandoned until he met his Robinson in the person of Brandon Grimshaw. The small island of Moyenne (only 480 meters long and 300 meters wide) in 1964 cost the Englishman £8,000.
Then the island could not boast of fertile soil and diverse fauna. For forty years, Grimshaw and his assistant Rene Antoine Lafortune have been restoring valuable nature on this small piece of land.
How beautiful this forgotten corner became when tropical trees grew on the island, thousands of local birds and animals found their homes, and convenient walking paths 5 kilometers long appeared. He seemed to come to life and began to grow richer every day, increasing his value.
The real treasure of the island were hundreds of giant tortoises, which were almost exterminated in the Seychelles. It was here that their life flourished, which gave the island the status of a national reserve in 2008.
This place became so famous that it began to attract foreign tourists, and Brandon Grimshaw himself even received an offer to sell his house for $ 45 million. Of course, the Briton refused, because what he created is not worth any money. Even after his death in 2012, the island remained the same embodiment of heaven on earth.
Keywords: Desert island | Island