Word: floreana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...readers, as a lovers' Eden, with hibiscus and orchids everywhere and acquiescent beauty under every bush. But U.S. Army & Navy men who were stationed during the war on dry, red-dusty Seymour Island know better. So do Ainslie and Frances Conway of California, who homesteaded on Santiago and Floreana Islands before...
...Conways, who still confess to enchantment, put the case with good sense and good nature: Santiago, Floreana and a few of the other Galápagos are all right for hardy folk, but eager escapists and romantics had better stay away. The Conways went there in the first place (1937) because they were almost broke. Drawing their last $500 from the bank, they bought passage and groceries, eventually found themselves with 13? left. On Santiago, their fondest neighbors were a convict and an assortment of rats, wild pigs and wild goats. On Floreana the neighbors were mostly wild cattle, which...
...Also on Floreana were the Wittmers-contemporaries of the Baroness-a German family who had lived there since 1932. The Wittmers were the island's upper crust: their house had cement flooring. The Conways never rose so high in the social scale, but managed to survive and even enjoy life for four years in a dirt-floored...