Tom Neale wrote "An Island to Oneself" in which he lived on a remote island multiple times in his life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Neale https://en.wiki

Tom Neale wrote "An Island to Oneself" in which he lived on a remote island multiple times in his life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Neale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Neale The government still checked up on him on occasion and he had to return to society due to injury, but he was very much a hermit otherwise.