A Lesser Dependency
- Authors
- Benson, Peter
- Publisher
- Alma Books
- Tags
- racial conflict , island , empire , winner of the encore award , eviction , indian ocean
- ISBN
- 9781846881923
- Date
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.68 MB
- Lang
- en
A trenchant critique of modern civilization, *A Lesser Dependency* movingly describes how one family’s tropical heaven became hell. In 1971 the inhabitants of Diego Garcia, a small island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, a place too small to find on a map and one of the last paradisical outposts of the Empire, were suddenly evicted from their homes to make way for a US military base.