A stickler for detail, Pete Brand, recounts with great clarity his and his family's many real-life adventures in Dominica (where Pirates of the Caribbean II was filmed) and the Caribbean region during the sixties and seventies, and positions the reader as an eyewitness to what life was like living in a tropical paradise during and after the period when Dominica was a British colony.
This is a firsthand account of the unique events and exploits as an entrepreneur, architect, artist, pilot, sailor, horticulturists, writer and father of four. From the conception of his dream of designing and constructing one of the first eco friendly hotels, meeting the Queen of England, numerous sailing adventures, and near-fatal crash landing in the rural Dominican Republic, the writer “involves” the reader.
And then comes hurricane David, the strongest recorded hurricane to hit the western hemisphere which devastates Dominica, and Island House, the Brand dream, as Pete literally takes cover for his life.
This is a firsthand account of the unique events and exploits as an entrepreneur, architect, artist, pilot, sailor, horticulturists, writer and father of four. From the conception of his dream of designing and constructing one of the first eco friendly hotels, meeting the Queen of England, numerous sailing adventures, and near-fatal crash landing in the rural Dominican Republic, the writer “involves” the reader.
And then comes hurricane David, the strongest recorded hurricane to hit the western hemisphere which devastates Dominica, and Island House, the Brand dream, as Pete literally takes cover for his life.
