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FOR "some to discover islands" is a recognized career for men, like "some to the wars", or "some to the studious universities". Such islands are mostly far away; but to rediscover the forgotten and reoccupy the abandoned ones is work for R. M. Lockley, Compton Mackenzie, Fraser Darling, Seton Gordon, and other men of like calibre. For a man's island is his kingdom, and becomes his paradise; and a bird-lover among his own island-birds lives, as it were, in Eden.
Dream Island Days
A Record of the Simple Life. By R. M. Lockley. Pp. 144 + 8 plates. (London: H. F. and G. Witherby, Ltd., 1943.) 10s. 6d. net.
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THOMPSON, D. Dream Island Days. Nature 153, 270 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153270b0
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