Man Island

by Robert James Warner


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 05/10/2001

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 252
ISBN : 9780759615960

About the Book

Mr. Warner says: “Years ago, I read a story about an island called Deer Island. There was a herd of deer and a pack of wolves on Deer Island. “

“Some bleeding heart liberals heard about the wolves preying on the deer on Deer Island (the Bambi syndrome) so they protested and managed somehow to get the wolves removed to save the deer herd. With the wolves gone, the deer herd became larger and starved during the wintertime with its snow and cold because there was not enough food for them. Saner minds prevailed and the wolves were put back on Deer Island to restore the natural balance of nature. “

“Anthropology had interested me since childhood, and I had often wondered if early man had had some kind of predator preying on him just like the predators prey on deer and elk and other animals so the story of Deer Island made me wonder what would happen if a group of people were put on an island like Deer Island, the people the deer, and a pack of predators, like the wolves, was added to prey on the people? My novel Man Island was the result.”

“Since I used people as if they were deer, my novel became an allegorical story which is why I named it Man Island because of the people on the island in the same way Deer Island was named after the deer on Deer Island.”

Man Island deliberately starts out slowly to symbolize a happy family on a summer pleasure cruise in the Bahamas when ”WHAM•!!! Disaster strikes, and action, suspense, mystery, and horrible death never stop until the end!

If you like action, suspense, mystery, science fiction-fantasy, survival stories with an allegorical twist, great courage, sudden hideous death, and a great love story, you will like Man Island!


About the Author

Robert James Warner was born and raised in Long Beach, California. He went to the local schools. He was drafted in to the Navy on March 9th, 1944, during the 2nd World War as soon as he finished his last semester in High School. He was discharged from the Navy on June 16, 1946.

Mr. Warner went back to school, Long Beach City College, on the G.I.Bill, taking mechanical engineering, then he switched to journalism. After about a year and a half at City College he quit.

Mr. Warner had always been interested in writing, but he had huge handicaps to overcome: he couldn't spell (he still can't); and grammar was then and is now a mystery to him. 

Mr. Warner first began to write when he was about 20.

During the next few years he wrote some songs and some poetry and some short stories, but his output was quite small.

From 1947, after Mr. Warner left City College, to 1950, he had a number of different inconsequential jobs, the longest at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach where he worked in the blueprint department for eight months, then he quit and loafed awhile.

In 1950 he enlisted in the Active Naval Reserve as a weekend warrior, so he could learn seamanship and get paid doing it. He has had a life long love affair with boats (building his own) and fishing.

About three months later, the Korean War started. Mr. Warner was about to be called back in the Navy, so he volunteered under a plan of Congress which would alloy him to serve for only one year. He entered the Navy for the second time in July 1950, and was discharged in August 1551. Mr. Warner served on three aircraft carriers, operating off of Korea in the China Sea, bombing and strafing the communists!

After Korea, Mr. Warner went back to City College for awhile, then he guit again and got a job on a freighter as a deckhand, and made two trips to the Hawaiian Islands, about 30 days round trip, hauling bulk sugar for C&H Sugar in Crocket California on the Sacramento River.

Leaving the ship in Crocket he went to Santa Rosa, California, where he washed dishes in some restaurants and got a poem published in the local newspaper, a big day in his life.

Next, he went to Yosemite, and washed some more dishes then he went home.

Mr. Warner has cleaned chicken dung from under the pens; he owned and operated his own auto wrecking yard; owned his own 2nd Hand Store; was half owner of a Yacht Landing; speculated in Real Estate and worked at some other odd jobs, going to work for the Long Beach Fire Department in 1953 for the next 26 years, retiring in October, 1979.

Mr. Warner got married in 1961, had his son in 1963, then got divorced in 1973.

In 1974, Mr. Warner and his son, Jeff, drove to Alaska during the summer. On his return, Mr. Warner wrote his first novel, THE ISLAND OF EDEN, a huge novel of over 2,000 pages.

Since 1974, Mr. Warner has written 31 novels, about 125 short stories, two Civil War books, and two poetry collections.