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........I became interested in Survivor mainly because I was a used-book (3rd party) Seller on Amazon.com. I had an incredible 1950's book written by an airplane pilot about how to survive in the wilderness. I had also read a book about the South American soccer team who survived a plane crash in the Andes. I'd read a book about a young man who went to live in the wilds of Alaska but didn't make it. I was (and AM) a devoted fan of Timothy Treadwell, friend of the bears. In fact, survival is one of my favorite book subjects. I heard about the CBS show Survivor over on Amazon and watched it and immediately got hooked. Need I say LORD OF THE FLIES and ROBINSON CRUSOE are some of my favorite books from High School? I am fascinated by the psycho-social drama of people stranded out in nature, trying to survive. ....... I found myself living in an abandoned coffee-shack on the hill of Kainaliu near Kealakekua in Hawaii (The Big Island.) It was two stories high, with huge windows but no glass in the windows. I could hear the birds and boars and ruslting ti leaves and banana bushes; I could look out my bedroom window and see miles down the hill to the rocky Kona shore. We had no running water or indoor plumbing. We caught rainwater in a huge water tank, and used it for everything. Showers were hooked up outside in little leafy copses covered with purple, pink and red bougainvillea cascading across huge elephant-ear leaves and giant ferns. The bathroom facilities were Japanese-style holes in the ground, where one squatted. Baths were really heated tin ofuros heated by burning coals under the high stand. (to be cont'd)     OKTOOL wins the Houston Survivor Challenge           http://survivorwiki.wetpaint.com/page/Survivor+on+the+Web offsites
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