Read about Pat Collins, who roamed the Indonesian seas on a self-built prahu and wrote about the Komodo Dragons in a sensational posthumous manuscript .

You'll find numerous descriptions of islands, boats, peoples (fishermen, hunters, farmers...), their traditions and beliefs, in three books published
in the mid-thirties.

A fourth manuscript tells of his discovery of the island of Komodo and its legendary giant lizards, at a time (1937) when they were still mysterious dragons.