Brendon Grimshaw, former newspaper editor purchased Moyenne Island in the Seychelles for 8,000 GBP in 1962 and set about planting 16,000 trees and bred giant tortoises.
The only inhabitant of the island, Grimshaw fought with local hotel developers who wanted to buy the island – now worth 34 million Euros and a site of natural beauty – from him as he approached old age.
With no family members to inherit it from him, Grimshaw saw off the developers making Moyenne Island a national park.
He died peacefully in 2012, safe in the knowledge that his hard work would not go to waste.
https://fractalenlightenment.com/35099/life/6-famous-hermits-who-have-made-history
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