Book Review

Book review

Once Upon an Island

Author David Conover

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Anyone who has toured the Gulf Islands on the east coast of Vancouver Island knows the beauty of this chain...and probably wanted to own one. This is exactly what happened to David Conover and his wife Jeanne"

--Seattle Times

"If enough dreamers attain their hopes, the supply of islands will soon be exhausted."

-----New Jersey News

"...only a few follow through on their dream."

-----Sunday World Herald Magazine.

"What person has not idled away a summer afternoon dreaming about owning and living on an island?"

-----The Fresno Bee

"...the story of one man's passion for an island that almost consumed him and his wife. The charm of the book lies in the earnestness of the writer...a real Robinson Crusoe saga."

-----Beverly Hills Citizen News

"...a love affair between a young couple and an island. The book is devoted to the adventures and misadventures, the terrible trials and the comic failures and successes

(of the) Conovers."

-----Birmingham News

"It is a story of detailed effort...disappointment...success."

-----Gulf Islands Driftwood

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