- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Patricia J Mills (18 Sep 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955760003
- ISBN-13: 978-0955760006
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 858,508 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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First we had the computer game. Now we have the real thing. That fact is stranger than fiction can find no better example than in the life and times of Anne Jennings Brown, which are chronicled in her book Roatanne Odyssey. This tells the story of a real-life Lara Croft-figure who is now in her 70s and living in Hamstead Marshall from the time she met and married a veteran Texan war pilot and adventurer, and went to live with him on an uninhabited corner of a remote Honduran island. From then on, the book is packed full of almost picaresque action and adventure. There is the time they go treasure hunting in an Ecuadorian jungle, for instance, surmounting no end of dangerous situations, any one of which would see off lesser mortals. Then there are drugs, smugglers, murder and other mayhem, not to mention all the ghostly goings-on of Caribbean pirates. Despite it all, Anne always manages a long skirt for dinner. It may sound strange and it is but, for a self-published book, indeed for any book, this is an exciting tale engagingly told with lashings of self-deprecating black humour. Beautifully illustrated by the author's own maps, pen drawings and photographs (a few more of the latter would have been nice for the curious, though), I can't wait for a sequel. Or even a film adaptatation. Croft, eat your computer-generated heart out. --Newbury Weekly News
Wonderful book! It is very enjoyable reading - a page turner. Ms Brown's very personal story of how she came to be one of the first resident builders in Port Royal since the era of British habitation is full of adventure, history, personal insight and growth along with concise philosophical edicts delivered in a most unusual manner. She does a wonderful job of portraying the area of Port Royal, St Helene, Oakridge and Coxen's Hole, along with life and those who lived on Roatan in the 1960s and 70s, many of whom still do, and can be found in the same places she describes in this book. Anne gives meaning to the word perseverance and insight as to when to quit and move on. Her fortitude [is amazing] and she lived in Port Royal without a phone or a radio. The photographs, drawings and maps are also impressive. --Linda Kay, Roatan
Wonderful book! It is very enjoyable reading - a page turner. Ms Brown's very personal story of how she came to be one of the first resident builders in Port Royal since the era of British habitation is full of adventure, history, personal insight and growth along with concise philosophical edicts delivered in a most unusual manner. She does a wonderful job of portraying the area of Port Royal, St Helene, Oakridge and Coxen's Hole, along with life and those who lived on Roatan in the 1960s and 70s, many of whom still do, and can be found in the same places she describes in this book. Anne gives meaning to the word perseverance and insight as to when to quit and move on. Her fortitude [is amazing] and she lived in Port Royal without a phone or a radio. The photographs, drawings and maps are also impressive. --Linda Kay, Roatan
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This is a true story of love, courage, treachery and determination that reads like the finest adventure fiction. Nurtured in a select boarding school, with a degree in art and a privileged London society lifestyle, the author re-marries to a Texan adventurer. She finds herself treasure hunting in a magnificent, uninhabited harbour on Roatan in the Bay Islands of Honduras, whereupon she designs and helps build a home on the site of an old pirate fort, accessible only by sea. Anne believes she has at last found true happiness until her handsome new husband, Howard Jennings, unwilling to share his treasure trove, tries to kill her during their search for Inca riches in the jungles of Ecuador. But Jennings has met his match in the upper-class girl who could swim, sail, ride, shoot and fight with the best and the worst of them, and then dress for dinner. When Howard is deported, Anne is left to live alone on Roatan in her now-derelict home, ravaged by a powerful hurricane, with only local wildlife and Moller, the resident ghost of a buccaneer, for company. With Moller s help, Anne survives the Caribbean elements, lost love, threats, arrest and interrogation, compounded by suicides, murder and disaster.
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This is a delightful memoir from a wonderfully brave adventuress. Written over forty years ago, Anne Jennings Brown's story Roatan Odyssey provides a snapshot of Roatan life that still holds true in the 21st century. Although not a literary tome, the book is still engaging and insightful to the spirit of the island lifestyle, it's joyous beauty, trials, tribulations, and endless surprises. She quite successfully illuminates the generosity and many endearing qualities of the islanders. Explores truthfully the nature and depth of her relationships and lends insight to being alone. Loving the island myself, I found the book so intriguing that I hired a boat to go to the site of the house she describes beyond Punta Gorda. Only a ruin of the foundation remains. Oddly, the night before that journey, while I was walking on the beach at West Bay, I met a woman who knows her and we spoke at great length about the book and what was fact and what was fanciful conjecture. Facts won. Anne, at this writing is alive in England although she is suffering from cancer. I have a signed copy of her book which I cherish. I highly recommend this work to every curious traveler who may be heading to Roatan.
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THIS IS A TRUE STORY of love, courage, treachery and determination that reads like the finest adventure fiction.
Nurtured in a select boarding school, with a degree in art and a privileged London society lifestyle, the author re-marries to a Texan adventurer. She finds herself treasure hunting in a magnificent, uninhabited harbour on Roatan in the Bay Islands of Honduras, whereupon she designs and helps build a home on the site of an old pirate fort, accessible only by sea.
Anne believes she has at last found true happiness until her handsome new husband, Howard Jennings, unwilling to share 'his' treasure trove, tries to kill her during their search for Inca riches in the jungles of Ecuador.
But Jennings has met his match in the upper-class girl who could swim, sail, ride, shoot and fight with the best - and the worst - of them, and then dress for dinner.
When Howard is deported, Anne is left to live alone on Roatan in her now-derelict home, ravaged by a powerful hurricane, with only local wildlife and Moller, the resident ghost of a buccaneer, for company.
With Moller's help, Anne survives the Caribbean elements, lost love, threats, arrest and interrogation, compounded by suicides, murder and disaster.
Nurtured in a select boarding school, with a degree in art and a privileged London society lifestyle, the author re-marries to a Texan adventurer. She finds herself treasure hunting in a magnificent, uninhabited harbour on Roatan in the Bay Islands of Honduras, whereupon she designs and helps build a home on the site of an old pirate fort, accessible only by sea.
Anne believes she has at last found true happiness until her handsome new husband, Howard Jennings, unwilling to share 'his' treasure trove, tries to kill her during their search for Inca riches in the jungles of Ecuador.
But Jennings has met his match in the upper-class girl who could swim, sail, ride, shoot and fight with the best - and the worst - of them, and then dress for dinner.
When Howard is deported, Anne is left to live alone on Roatan in her now-derelict home, ravaged by a powerful hurricane, with only local wildlife and Moller, the resident ghost of a buccaneer, for company.
With Moller's help, Anne survives the Caribbean elements, lost love, threats, arrest and interrogation, compounded by suicides, murder and disaster.
Format:Paperback
Roatan Odyssey is a real page-turner. It tells the true story of young Englishwoman who turns her back on a Sloane lifestyle after meeting Howard Jennings (a real Indiana Jones) at a cocktail party. She joined him to hunt for treasure in the Ecuadorean jungle (where he tried to kill her) and ended fending for herself on Roatan, a primitive island off the Honduran mosquito coast. A must read for anyone with an appetite for perilous adventure.
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