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Comment by LOLA on April 19, 2009 at 2:30pm

http://www.trimaran-naga.com/suvarow-text.htm

Comment by LOLA on April 19, 2009 at 2:18pm

More on Tom Neale and his adventures:

http://www.setsail.com/s_logs/deridder/dragon45.html

Comment by Liv on April 10, 2009 at 9:05pm

Lola,
fullfill your dream, go see the island..If at all possible, sail there.

Comment by LOLA on April 10, 2009 at 4:39pm

Yes, Liv it is a State Park now, and the Pearl divers are still there, that started to come in the last year he was there...but still want to see it.

Comment by Liv on April 10, 2009 at 11:03am

I read this book years ago, at least 20 years ago, maybe longer, and I loved it then. I lived Tom's life with him back then, in my imagination and my dreams. Life on those islands was different then. From what I read a lot has been lost to tourism. Many sailors have visited Suratov when Tom Neale was still living on the island and after he left. I'm sure the island is not as remote and deserted any more.
Anyhow.. it's a good book to read , especially if one is in hibernation for winter, when the snow flies in the north and when we're counting down to launching.

Comment by LOLA on April 10, 2009 at 9:44am

If all you want to do is look at pictures scroll down...but you are missing his adventures..

he starts:

This is the story of the years which I spent alone, in two spells on an uninhabited coral atoll half a mile long and three hundred yards wide in the South Pacific. It was two hundred miles from the nearest inhabited island, and I first arrived there on October 7, 1952 and remained alone (with only two yachts calling) until June 24, 1954, when I was taken off ill after a dramatic rescue.

I was unable to return to the atoll until April 23, 1960 and this time I remained alone until December 27, 1963.

Tom Neale


I was fifty when I went to live alone on Suvarov, after thirty years of roaming the Pacific, and in this story I will try to describe my feelings, try to put into words what was, for me, the most remarkable and worthwhile experience of my whole life.

I am thinking of naming my boat Suvarov

Comment by Terri on April 10, 2009 at 9:34am

yeah...yeah..yeah...okay....no other photo's in the book??? ;-)

Comment by LOLA on April 10, 2009 at 9:31am

You all obviously have not read it...it is about being alone on an island...no boat..living on the land..on purpose.

The book is about his documentation of his life on this atoll...It's facinating.

Can;t believe you think its about the photo.

Do yourselves a favor ..read the book on line.

Comment by Terri on April 10, 2009 at 9:30am

Makes me think of that song... "You can leave your hat on"

Comment by Terri on April 10, 2009 at 9:25am

Lola!!! go to YOUR room! lol...what the heck is he holding on to??? must be a camera or something ;-) And more importantly ...where is his boat?? Got to have yer priorites straight Pirate Girl!!!

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