For $ 8000 Englishman Brandon Grimshaw bought a tiny deserted island in the Seychelles and moved there forever. When Britishman Brendon Grimshaw was under forty, he quit his job as a newspaper editor and started a new life.

By this time, a human leg has not been walking on the island for 50 years. Brandon has found a natives companion, as it is supposed to be a real robinson. His Friday was Renee Laforten. Together with Renee Brandon began to equip his new home. While Renee came to the island only periodically, Brandon lived on it for decades without leaving anywhere. Alone.

In 39 years, Grimshaw and Laforten planted 16 thousand trees with their own hands and built almost 5 kilometers of paths. Rene Laforten died in 2007 and Brandon was left on the island all alone.

He was 81 years old. It attracted 2000 new bird species to the island and started more than a hundred giant turtles that were already extinct in the rest of the world (including Seychelles). Thanks to Grimshaw’s efforts, there are now two thirds of Seychelles fauna on the once deserted island. An abandoned shred of earth has turned into a real paradise.

Several years ago, the prince of Saudi Arabia offered Brandon Grimshaw $ 50 million for the island, but robinson refused. ′′ I don’t want the rich island to become a favorite holiday destination. Better let it be a national park that everyone can enjoy “.

And he achieved that in 2008 the country was indeed declared a national park. ~ Story from Facebook, translated from Russian by Michael Walsh