An edition of A beginner's guide to Paradise (2015)

A beginner's guide to Paradise

9 steps to giving up everything so you too can: move to a South Pacific island, wear a loincloth, read a hundred books, build a bungalow, diaper a baby monkey, and maybe, just maybe, fall in love!

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An edition of A beginner's guide to Paradise (2015)

A beginner's guide to Paradise

9 steps to giving up everything so you too can: move to a South Pacific island, wear a loincloth, read a hundred books, build a bungalow, diaper a baby monkey, and maybe, just maybe, fall in love!

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"From the author of a lot of emails and several Facebook posts, a laugh-out-loud, true story of how a quarter-life crisis led to adventure, freedom, and love on a tiny island in the Pacific. In his mid-twenties, Alex Sheshunoff had his own internet start-up and had made national news. But he was also burned-out. So he bought a one-way ticket to the island of Yap, giving up everything he was supposed to want in search of all the things he never knew he needed. Along the way, he answered some important questions and some less essential ones too, such as: 1. How much, per pound, should you expect to pay a priest to fly you to the outer islands of Yap? 2. If you could have just one movie on a remote Pacific island, what would it definitely not be? 3. How do you blend fruity drinks without a blender? 4. Is a free one-hour class from Home Depot on 'flower box construction' sufficient training to build a house? While in the Pacific, Alex learned a lot. About making big choices and big changes. About the parts of Paradise that don't make it into the brochures. About the locals and expats he encountered, offended, and befriended. And, most of all, about focusing on what you actually care about. Now Alex shares his incredible story in a book that will surprise you, make you laugh, take you to such unforgettable islands as Angaur and Pig, and perhaps inspire you to find your own little place in the sun"--

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English
Pages
447

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Table of Contents

About This Guide
Author's Note
Step 1: Make Some Big Choices
Step 2: Show Up
Step 3: Find the Right Island
Step 4: Stop Being So Picky and Just Pick a Damn Island
Step 5: Settle In
Step 6: Meet Someone
Step 7: Regroup
Step 8: Build a House
Step 9: Live Pretty Much Happily Ever After
Appendix A: Recipe for Reconstituted Hash Browns
Appendix B: Recipe for the Perfect Sundowner
Appendix C: 14 Things to Know Before Building a House on a Remote Pacific Island.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
996.6, B
Library of Congress
DU568.Y3 S43 2015, DU568.Y3S43 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 447 pages
Number of pages
447

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27187997M
Internet Archive
beginnersguideto0000shes
ISBN 10
0451475860
ISBN 13
9780451475862
LCCN
2015008757
OCLC/WorldCat
909025476

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