Island life is famously idyllic, but it's long been known that islanders tend to experience disproportionately high rates of some rare genetically transmitted diseases.
His account of colonial settlements and towns unfolds as a procession of idyllic spaces, a fortuitous merging of fecund nature with the industrious activities of the white settler.
Such a viral phenomenon reminds many of Li Ziqi, who shared an idyllic life in the mountain of the southwestern Sichuan province on different platforms at home and abroad.
But one of the things about shooting in Savannah is it is this beautiful, idyllic place, but with a very ugly history, which is not dissimilar to Joe and Gracie's relationship.
In contrast to the idyllic, and mostly white, spaces that Goncharov reports seeing on his trip, the historical sketch paints the colony as a volatile frontier peopled by truculent African tribes.