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The fate of Moyenne Island ~ Brendon Grimshaw’s dilemma

The fate of Moyenne Island ~ Brendon Grimshaw’s dilemma

In 1972, 45 year-old Englishman Brendon Grimshaw left his job as an newspaper editor to live on an island 1,000 miles off the east coast of Africa. Called Moyenne Island, he purchased the small, half-mile diameter island for 10,ooo British pounds. Some 30+ years later it’s worth 10’s of millions of pounds more—and that’s the problem.