Madman's Island

One of the strangest episodes in the author's colourful life. Madman's Island tells of six terrible months spent on a small island of the Howick Group with only a madman for company. In the struggle to keep alive, Idriess had desperate adventures and suffered the terrors of complete loneliness. Humour, grim realism and strange beauty mingle in this romantic tale, told with glowing vitality. Note this is the non-fiction version first published in 1938, not to be confused with the original 1927 fictionalised version.