Table of Contents
Foreword.............................................................. vii
Introduction.............................................................. x
Leaving Home......................................................... 1
A Meeting That Changed My Life............................ 5
SYDNEY: MEETING THE CREW......................... 10
VIEWING THE JUNK............................................ 13
PREPARING TO LEAVE....................................... 16
DEPARTURE FROM SYDNEY............................. 27
LORD HOWE ISLAND.......................................... 31
THREATENED WITH IMPRISONMENT............... 34
INTO A STORM AND LOST................................. 36
THE VOYAGE BECOMES A NIGHTMARE .. 40
ARRIVAL AT NOUMEA......................................... 42
BAD AND GOOD NEWS....................................... 45
A PROFITABLE CHARTER.................................. 53
JOURNEY UP THE EAST
COAST OF NEW CALEDONIA............................. 56
THE LOYALTY ISLANDS...................................... 61
SEA SNAKES........................................................ 64
THE ISLE OF PINES REVISITED......................... 66
RETURN TO NOUMEA
AND THE ART SALE............................................ 71
SHARK ENCOUNTER.......................................... 75
MISTAKEN IDENTITY........................................... 78
A LEISURELY LIFE WITH
THE LAST FOUR CREW...................................... 82
THE CHIMPANZEE SHOW.................................. 84
THE END OF A DREAM....................................... 89
THE AFTERMATH................................................ 96
EPILOGUE.......................................................... 105
ABOUT THE AUTHOR........................................ 111
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