Books with author Jackie Binder

This trilogy is definitely not a travel guide. And it’s not just a tale of travelling the world’s oceans and meeting people in faraway lands. It’s a series showing how to live a life filled with adventure and survive. Trilogy comprising: Sailors on Safari + Danger Awaits the Unwary + Moai Magic HomeAfter sailing our vessel the equal of three times around the world, we set off from Australia an accomplished team of explorers searching for the unusual and inspirational.The Four J’s ~ Jack, Judith, Jason, and Jerome had already lived ten years afloat, experiencing daily-life with a multitude of diverse societies. Always being the new family in the neighbourhood, we shared dinners, hosted sleepovers, swapped kids, and were invited to local events. To earn our keep during this decade of life afloat, we successfully completed internationally acclaimed amateur radio expeditions to mid-ocean ribbons of sand. A finely honed team at the peak of our sailing prowess, we set sail around the world on Voyages of Education seeking knowledge and adventure.In Book One – Sailors on Safari, we conquer the stormy Indian Ocean, nearly losing our ship and lives on a storm enraged Madagascar shore before arriving in strife-torn Tanzania. By good fortune, we survive to explore the slave island of Zanzibar and then land on our feet organising a four-wheel drive to explore magical East African game parks rich with Earth’s last collection of wild beasts. Seychelles next, finding Ol Joe, the Rarest Nut, before becoming entangled with Somalia fishermen, and nearly losing our mast. Then on to the Heart of Islam, encountering Red Sea gunships in a frightening middle of the night battle of wits.Includes excerpts from:Danger Awaits the Unwary – Book TWO of the FOUR J’s Trilogy

Trilogy: Sailors on Safari + Danger Awaits the Unwary + Moai Magic HomeA comfortable breeze propelled Banyandah through a Disneyland of wondrous sights accompanied by a chorus of birds swopping in for a closer look at this stranger in their domain. On our left, a vertical curtain of grey rock erupted from an aquamarine sea to stretch towards a lofty peak. Down its smooth face slid a red-brown streak, darkened along its edge as if old blood from a wound in what could have been a sentinel guarding this strangely isolated patch of Earth. From this curtain of grey rock reaching towards the sky ran a ridge of spikey stones forming what we imagined to be the arm of the giant pointing across the vast sea. Except, where the sentinel's hand should have been ended in a cascade of rubble. On the edge of the world's largest ocean, in the wet never-never once again, uncharted mysteries lay ahead. We had survived many, and instead of cowering from them, we thirst for more, confident we can tackle the most challenging. With that foremost in our thoughts, we plotted a voyage home touching the ultimate attractions where mysteries still abound. Now a formidable team, we'd pit the finely hone spirit of the Four J's to discover what lay at the end of the oceans.

Jack and Jude are an extraordinary couple who have worked side by side since exchanging vows more than fifty years ago. These sixteen short-stories explore the lives of these two explorers bonded by their love of adventure and knowledge, beginning with their African Honeymoon in 1969. Five months overland from England to South Africa in a derelict VW van, braving the beautiful and desolate Sahara, and escaping to a war-ravaged Nigeria followed by Simba Rebels in the Congo, nursing their worn-out vehicle until it collapses into a swayback pile of junk in East Africa! Oh My! Run the clock forward several decades and there are many more adventures from a couple who know how to stay together giving excellent advice to all wanting to achieve magnificent feats. Failed Again, a story highlighting our indomitable spirit of never giving up in a cute reminisce from childhood days. Running Scared is the frame by frame danger in our lives when undertaking expeditions to mid-ocean sand patches, which financed our lifestyle. Cannons boomed and frightened men dived for shelter in the South China Sea, a hotspot. Years later, on a black night approaching Madagascar, with our teenage sons on board, an error of judgement puts death within a heartbeat. The Dead Don’t Cry. Read the full book for a treat that can be spread lusciously over a few weeks, even if ravenous.