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NRMA

  Sandringham Yacht Club

  Sony

  Tag Heuer

  Telstra

  TXU

  William Angliss

  Special thanks

  AGFA Film

  Australian National Maritime Museum

  Beyond Capricorn crew

  Birds Bees Trees & Things

  Cameron’s Metaland

  Chroma Media

  Cummings Flavel

  Deakin University

  Doquille Perret Meade

  Filmplus

  GME Electrophone

  Igloo Design

  Lightstream Films

  Lizard Island staff

  Lonely Planet

  Mission Aviation Fellowship

  Morgans Hotel

  Newcastle Fire Services

  Novotel

  Plan International

  Reach Youth

  RDF

  Royal Australian Navy

  Snowgum

  Victorian Government

  Working Dog

  The indigenous and local people

  of Australia & Indonesia who

  took us in and gave us food

  and friendship.

  PHOTOGRAPH AND ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

  Map by Guy Holt Illustration and Design

  Illustrated section

  Diagram by Herald Sun

  Illustrated section (top)

  Photograph by Lawrence Blair

  All other photographs are from the author’s private collection

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Jesse Martin was destined for adventure. Born in Munich in 1981 while his parents were travelling through Europe in a kombi van, he spent his early years in the beautiful Daintree rainforest of north Queensland. By the time he was fourteen he had sailed a thousand kilometres along Australia’s tropical coast on a flimsy catamaran and had trekked through South-East Asia and the Aboriginal communities of Central Australia. At sixteen he kayaked through remote islands of Papua New Guinea and then crewed on a yacht that sailed from Belize to Tahiti. In 1998 at the age of seventeen, Jesse set off from Melbourne on his record-breaking solo sail around the world.

  After returning from Kijana, Jesse established an adventure sailing charter business in late 2004, cruising the islands of Papua New Guinea in a 38-foot Polynesian catamaran. For more information, visit