La Jolla, California Bio Neva Sullaway’s story really began when she fled a bad marriage in 1975 to escape an abusive husband. As a sea-going hitchhiker, she lived the stories of Chasing Dreamtime well before her twenty-fifth birthday. After sailing to Australia and settling in Sydney, she became Australia’s National Women’s Sailboard Champion. During this time she created a magazine for sailors, Freesail Australia, which became Australia’s top-selling sailboarding magazine. She then authored One with the Wind—A Guide to Sailboarding in Australia. Competing in various locations around the world, she covered international sailing events for Australian, U.S., and European magazines. Returning to the U.S., Sullaway expanded her writing experiences by delving into filmmaking, receiving a first-place award for her short film Woodcarver, at the San Francisco International Film Festival. She’s also the author of Sailing in San Diego: A Pictorial History and a former editor of several maritime publications including Mains’il Haul. She continues to write and edit maritime-related publications. Project Description Having failed at her attempt at being the first woman to sail solo around the world, Sullaway arrived in Tahiti, where after only a few days she was placed in jail for a visa violation. And so began her true-life adventures: she was hunted by sharks and stricken with tropical fever. She smuggled drugs (albeit unwillingly), jumped ship, was held at knifepoint, and threatened by a violent fisherman. By the age of twenty-five, Sullaway had lived more than a lifetime of adventures and witnessed her share of near-death experiences. Even after facing death several times, Sullaway continued her journey, taking only a brief respite from sailing the seas to pedal a "push bike" through blazing fires and the intense heat of the Australian coastline. Although Sullaway’s island-hopping escapade is decidedly unique, her tale is not merely one woman’s adventure story. Chasing Dreamtime (Brookview Press, Spring 2005) crosses over into the spiritual and philosophical realm as well, as Sullaway tries to figure out where exactly her journey will take her. And as she travels over oceans, into the outback, through tropical forests, and deep into the consciousness of her own mind, she takes the reader along for the entire fantastic journey. Past and present merge together as Sullaway slowly realizes that perhaps it is not her destination that is important, but rather her past that holds the key to her final escape.