The true story of two women stranded on New Guinea’s remote Hermit Island atoll after their sailboat grounds on a reef and sinks. At the mercy of the indigenous people, they are forced to live with the locals while they devise a plan to re-float their boat and sail to civilization. With careful planning and the help of the island men, they manage to save their boat from the reef only to find it immediately embroiled in a “cargo cult” salvage rights dilemma. Subjected to the arcane traditions of he locals, they struggle to keep control of their boat while they repair it in preparation for the dangerous trip to the mainland. It’s a unique look into the primitive culture of one of Papua New Guinea’s most isolated civilizations.
Table des matières
CONTENTS
THE SINKING
SAVING OUR KAGOS
OUR NEW HOME
A VERY LONG NIGHT BEGINS
THE HULL IS PATCHED
DAY ONE ON HERMIT
KEDGING AND KAGOS
BEACONS, TOKSAVES, AND THE MEN HAVE A PLAN
A JUNGLE CRADLE FOR BANSHEE
NIGHT WORK: BANSHEE FLOATS AGAIN
‘OH, THOSE NINIGO BOYS’
‘HAPPY SABBATH’
RELIGION AND POLITICS HERMIT STYLE
THE BIG CLEAN-UP
A U.S. ENVOY COMES TO HERMIT
GOOD-BYE, JOY
OUR SEPARATE WAYS
LESLIE ON HERMIT – MOVING BACK ABOARD
JOY IN LORENGAU TOWN
A FUEL SAGA AND FINALLY COMING ‘HOME’
LIFE BILONG HERMIT
‘SEL-O’ – OF BOATS AND PLANNING
OF SHIPS AND HOPE
LESLIE ON HER OWN AGAIN
OFF TO PORT MORESBY
THE SEARCH FOR THE MAGIC EPOXY
JOY IN LORENGAU TOWN AGAIN
LESLIE’S ‘PEBEKIM TIME’
AN ILL-FATED VOYAGE
HOPE, FEAR, AND A VISITOR
ESCAPE FROM HERMIT
A WEEK’S PERILOUS VOYAGE
WE MADE IT!
ABOUT BANSHEE
REPAIRING BANSHEE
AUTHOR’S NOTE
PIDGIN NOTES
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A propos de l’auteur
Leslie Brown is from New York, where she worked as a N.Y.C. bike messenger. She became a sailing enthusiast after moving to Hawaii. She restored an old 24-foot plywood sailboat and sailed on her own around the Hawaiian Islands for ten years, working as a scuba diving instructor.
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