Tom Neale – The Voluntary Castaway

Thomas Francis Neale was a New Zealand bushcraft and survival enthusiast, who, unlike the other castaway stories I have here on my channel, chose this himself.
He spent much of his life in the Cook Islands, a total of 16 years, in three sessions – living alone on an island of the Suwarrow atoll, the first two of which were the basis of his popular autobiography An Island To Oneself.
Even though being a father of 4, or maybe even 6 children, he was an absentee father, following his dream to the bitter end.

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