NEWSLETTERS
Throughout the ten years of research for Dark Sun, I connected with many people who helped with information, who became known to me as "George People" and whom I wished to keep apprised of new findings and progress regarding, for instance, the reissue of
Quest. In addition, after the publication of Dark Sun and my higher profile web site, people who read the book, who were looking to buy a copy of
Quest, or who had additional information about Te Rapunga and/or George Dibbern tracked me down. I have periodically googled George Dibbern and found interesting references or archival material. In order to share the information I began to send
out, more-or-less quarterly, newsletters.
While I've fallen behind—the new Quest took up ever so much more time than I had anticipated—I hope to begin again now that the web site has been upgraded and updated.
If you wish to be on the mailing list, please send me an email l with "Yes to Newsletter" in the subject line. Otherwise you can simply check the web site periodically for the most recent one.
If you are on the list but prefer not to be, please send an email with "No newsletter" in the subject line.
If your edress changes, and you wish to remain on the list, please advise me of the new one.
Thanks. EG
HIGHLIGHTS IN NEWSLETTERS
#12 -
NOVEMBER 2011
April 2010 – George Dibbern Odyssey trip to
coastal California:
•San Francisco – Bird and Beckett Bookstore
•Salinas – Visit with Valentine Miller
•Big Sur – Henry Miller Memorial Library
•Santa Barbara – Visit with Eva Menkin –
Freiherr von Fritsch connection
September 2010 – Wooden Boat Festival Port Townsend
Other News:
•Miller article in Die Zeit, Germany
•Article planned for mare magazine in Germany
•One hour feature planned for Südwest Radio in
June 2012
•New links
#11 - FEBRUARY 2010
• Booklet by George Dibbern: "A Sail on the Horizon," courtesy
Lenore Nysse in NZ
• Letters by George Dibbern from John Ansett in AU
• Presentation/display at Still
Water Books and Art in Campbell River, BC
• Facebook "common interest" George Dibbern
Group
#10 - OCTOBER
2009
•Anecdote from Jane Caddy
•Letter from George to Capt. Louis Brady found among
Count von Luckner (Sea Devil) papers
•New postings about Dibbern on the internet
•News and update re Quest
•New book by Rüdiger von Fritsch
#9 - APRIL 2009
•The new Quest is available
#8 - AUGUST 2008
•Details re the new reprint edition of Quest by
George Dibbern; release date delayed
#7 - MAY 2008
•Rüdiger Freiherr von Fritsch, godson of Doe von
Fritsch, contacted me.
•Mea culpa: mis-identification of woman in
photo in
Dark Sun.
•Article about Dibbern's passport by René Étiemble
in Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
#6 - JANUARY 2008
•What appears to be the original German copy of Convert to Freedom (titled
Ein Nazi entdeckt Frankreich).
•Dibbern referred to as a member of the Joshua Slocum Society.
#5 - AUGUST 2007
•Dark Sun donated to Bruny Island History Room.
•Dust jacket of John Lane The Bodley Head edition of Quest with blurb about Eitel Wolf
Dobert's book Convert to Freedom—and discovery of blurb about Quest on dust jacket of
Convert to Freedom.
#4 - APRIL 2007
•Sally Holden in UK with info about Albrecht von
Fritsch/ George René Halkett.
•German Friendship Globe in Dundarave, West Vancouver
BC.
#3 - NOVEMBER 2006
•Wooden Boat Festival Port Townsend – 8-11 September 2006.
•New Zealand Memories: my article After the Book
#2 - AUGUST 2006
•Author selling Dark Sun at Squirrel Cove Craft Store.
•New photos of Dibbern on Satellite Island, Tasmania.
•Introduction to Citizens of the Sea movement.
#1- MAY 2006
•Archival findings from University of Indiana in the Bloom MSS
•Film of Stranding in Greymouth NZ, 1957.
•Lee Domann a modern day troubadour
•German Artist Thomas Weisenberger & Jo Schaeuble
•Excerpt from Roy Murdock's Diary
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