2 Responses to “My 78th Birthday is Here At Last!!!”

1. Stephen Scott on September 24th, 2015 5:37 pm
   

   The Saga Of Cimba has also been a part of my life. And for longer than I can recall. I just a few minutes ago re-read the passage which Tristan Jones stole for one of his books. I came on here just now to see if there was any information available about Dombey Dickinson. And weirdly enough; here you are.
2. admin on September 26th, 2015 2:23 pm
   

   Hi, Stephen,

   Weirdly enough, is right! Especially, because that latest post is all photograph and no copy…..certainly not about The Cimba or my maiden name, which was Linda Dickinson Brown. Guess you Googled my father’s nickname and found my post about him. Hey, I even have a tattoo around my ankle made just two years ago, in American Samoa, with both the little Cimba and the four-master, The Seth Parker, which he signed on as 2nd Mate, leaving Cimba in Pago Pago, heading towards Hawaii. You might be interested in reading my movie script about that voyage (which includes Cimba). The script is called “The Insatiable Sea,” at http://studios.amazon.com/scripts/5579 . That Seth Parker voyage ended in mutiny and would have sunk if Russ/Dombey hadn’t been aboard. So, in itself, it’s a great, big- screen Sea Saga, but I don’t know how to interest the studios.

   I guess you could say that the vessel, Cimba, and Dick Maury’s book, The Saga of Cimba, has been a part of my life for longer than I can recall, too. Back when I wrote the script, I looked up Dick’s family in Connecticut. I did talk to his son, who didn’t know his father’s story very well. Though it was nothing formal, they all gave their consent for me to use the book and the story as background for the movie. However, Warner Brothers, who runs that site with Amazon.com, has not “discovered” it. I even tried to interest Peter Jackson in producing it, when I was in New Zealand, but I didn’t get very far connecting with him.

   How does the Cimba story enter your life? Are you in Dick’s family…. or maybe George, who replaced Russ in Tahiti, and the three of them sailed to Pago Pago? Isn’t it interesting, how the life stories stay alive through the generations, if one does something heroic and different with their life? And then, someone immortalizes it in print in a skillful, Joseph Conrad sort of a way? It’s been awhile since I have even thought of the story, but I know it well enough that it doesn’t fade.

   My email address is [email protected] and I can’t wait to hear your answer. My other website is http://www.insecretdiffusion.com but it’s a metaphysical site instead of solo world travel.

   Nice to hear from you!

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