Shute Nevil. Trustee from the Toolroom

Vintage, 2009. First published 1960
Raw doc.Keith Stewart designs and makes miniature working models and earns a very modest living writing about them in a model makers' magazine. He must drop everything when his niece's parents are lost at sea, and travel across the world to a Pacific atoll in order to fullfill his duties as trustee. He has little money, and must trust to fate for success in his quest.