The Story of a South Atlantic Island
by
Duff Hart-Davis
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
The bleak, volcanic island of Ascension, 800 miles from its nearest neighbour St Helena, was described by a Victorian naval officer as ‘one of the strangest places on the face of the earth’. It is still exceedingly odd. Uninhabited when it was taken over by the British in 1815, it was an almost...