14) Brendan Grimshaw
In 1962, Brendan Grimshaw from Yorkshire, England, bought an island known as Moyenne, one of the Seychelle islands off of the western African coast for the lovely price of ₤8,000, living there still to this very day.
Healthy, tanned and living in a single story house on a hillside, Brendan has been slowly building a population of giant tortoises, which have been lost on most of the other islands in the area. Looking after 120 of these tortoises and also working to reintroduce many local birds, he has turned this once abandoned island into a 22.5 acre nature reserve.
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