How to Thrive on a Tropical Deserted Island

Discover the secrets of survival!
Find out how to:

Start a fire by rubbing two sticks together,
In a way that really works!
Weave a coconut leaf hat to go beachcombing in.
Build an outrigger canoe
Discover and prepare delicious new foods to eat
Make your own natural medicines, just in case.
Distill your own arrack
Learn tool less Polynesian Navigation
Make your own stone tools

What would happen if you lost your boat and ended up on a deserted island? Could you survive? Barely? Why not thrive? Why not build a paradise with your own two hands? You can do it. This book shows you how. Instead of a disaster, have the time of your life playing Swiss Family Robinson!

Tired of being shown up at potlucks? Find out about many tropical plants and animals that can grace your table. Bring the tropics to your yacht club, home table, picnics. Instill in your mate the desire to sail to new horizons, explore new islands, to take a step to the other side of the unknown, to a paradise all your own. All you need is to know how. This is the book you need to lead the way.

Don't own a boat or go to potlucks, whatever those are?  Like to daydream late at night or on warm lazy afternoons?  This book is fuel for your dreams!  Stop dreaming in black and white!  Technicolor makes them so much more enjoyable.  You need this book!

225 pages

It is very strange that I wrote this book in the Sea of Cortez.  It is far away from Tropical Abandoned islands.  At least the kind addressed in this book.  Spear fishing is great in the Sea.  Maybe that is where I received my inspiration. 

This book describes a world that is right out there waiting for you.  What are you doing sitting in a marina or lounging in front of a TV?  True adventure and the romance of your dreams is waiting for you right over the horizon. 

You just have to reach out, buy the book, get dreaming and then get going! 

Heaven isn't something that happens after we are dead.  Heaven can be reached right here on Earth.  Trust me, I've been there and I am so going back!  Oh, Yeah!

Mike Riley, in between writing books and sailing the oceans, has been a penguin breeder, a longline fisherman, a Car Ferry captain, a whale hunter, an industrial spy, a dolphin and sea lion collector, a microbiologist, and the CEO of Husband For Rent. He and his wife, Karen, live on their 41’ ketch, Beau Soleil, and can be found anywhere there is blue water and a far horizon.