This book´s aim is merely to describe in familiar terms the daily life of the quaintest and most isolated community in the British Empire. At Tristan da Cunha even the ordinary happenings of everyday life seem to take on a glow of romance, and commonplace folk come to fill conspicuous places in our interest which in a larger setting are denied to them. In this book Rose has introduced the islanders to the readers by name, and has done this in the hope that you will feel a more intimate and personal interest in them.