Blueprint for Paradise: How to Live on a Tropic Island

By Ross Norgrove

Book Overview

Blueprint for paradise: How to live on a tropic island [Paperback] This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877421544
• ISBN13: 9780877421542
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Blueprint for Paradise: How to Live on a Tropical Island

This book is very informative for anyone thinking of living on a tropical island. I lived in Fiji for five years and found his information to be right on the money. I lived there before reading the book. I was especially interested in the break down of the different types of islands. Its very helpful to know what each kind of island offers in relation to what type of life you want to lead. Some parts, like building a boat, I skipped over, but I found the day to day info extremely well researched or lived as is his case. He talked from his own experience. It will prove helpful for the neophyte to island life. If you are thinking of moving to a tropical island, read this book first.

No understatement

This book is rated in 5 catagories from"Catcher in the Rye" rocks to luxury islands. Each catagories presents different challenges, although the difficulty in living on a catagory 5 island centers mostly on the laid back tropical lifestyle in relation to either getting your place built on time or being patient thru expected bureaucratic red-tape. This is not a run of the mill guidebook. Its like a Time-Life fix-it manual focusing on tropic islands. I am now read up on tropical architecture, plumbing, cisterns, septic tanks, boatbuilding and several other practical activities.The book certainly delivers on what the title promises. Personally, I was expecting less technicality, but thats my problem. I would recommend this to anyone thinking of roughing it on an island.