Comments on: A Nation-Island between US & Canada?

Question: A Nation-Island between US & Canada?

archae — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:06:21 -0800

Overheard-conversation-filter: someone described a fascinating book, but I didn't catch the author nor title, just the plot. A guy creates an independent nation on a small island between the US and Canada....

Overheard-conversation filter: someone described a fascinating book, but I didn't catch the author nor title, just the plot. A guy creates an independent nation on a small island between the US and Canada. I didn't catch much more than that, the island-state has just a house and a garden, and the guy dresses in the militaristic manner of a South American dictator.
It was described as being an older book if that helps.

By: wemayfreeze

wemayfreeze — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:34:58 -0800

Moosylvania?

By: rongorongo

rongorongo — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:47:28 -0800

Wikipedia also has a really page about micronations - real and fictional -too - if Moosylvania is not where you were thinking of you might find the place listed here.

By: brockerst

brockerst — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:37:31 -0800

It sounds very much like the Family Guy episode E. Peterbus Unum. Perhaps it was based on the book you're after.

By: mikepop

mikepop — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:49:11 -0800

I've heard of this book some time ago but can't dig up the title. If it helps anyone search, I believe there was also a movie (perhaps made for TV/cable) based on it.

By: Robert Angelo

Robert Angelo — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:41:19 -0800

I think it may have been "Meanwhile Back At the Castle" from Scholastic. I remember having it when I was a kid in the 1970s.

By: Robert Angelo

Robert Angelo — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:43:32 -0800

Here it is.

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:45:43 -0800

Not your book, but Thomas Perry's Island is a good read about a fictional nation created on an island in the Caribbean.

By: ChuckLeChuck

ChuckLeChuck — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:05:32 -0800

At first I thought you were talking about Quebec.

By: mikepop

mikepop — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:22:36 -0800

Robert, thanks for the answer (at least to the story I am recollecting), not finding it was annoying me greatly!