# The Teatime Islands

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- Book: [The Teatime Islands](https://www.bookquiver.com/ben-fogle/the-teatime-islands) ([The Teatime Islands.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ben-fogle/the-teatime-islands.md))
- Authors: [Ben Fogle](https://www.bookquiver.com/ben-fogle)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4194-622-1
- Published: 2004-08-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Welcomed with open arms, derided as a pig-ignorant tourist and occasionally mocked mercilessly for his trouble, Ben Fogle visited the last flag-flying outposts of the British Empire. With caution, dignity and a spare pair of pants thrown to the wind, he set out to discover just exactly who would choose to live on islands as remote as these and - more importantly - tried to figure out exactly why. Landing himself on islands so isolated, wind-swept, barren and just damned peculiar that they might have Robinson Crusoe thinking twice, Fogle: - Almost becomes lunch on the appropriately named Carcass Island - Gets deported from Pitcairn for being both a spy and a smuggler - Uncovers the story of the tyrant who became St Helena's most unwilling and least popular guest - And witnesses a shark attack from a respectable distance. Why he went, what he did when he got there and how exactly he got back in one piece makes for an eye-opening but affectionate look into life in these unique, peculiar places.