Category: Australia

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Mark May, Australian hermit

YaooNews offers a brief item about an Australian hermit puzzle titled: “The Hermit of the Australian Bush: Mark May Lived Alone Off the Grid For 35 Years.” From the article:

“Mark May was an intelligent young Australian with a scholarship to study law. Instead, he fled society and lived alone in a remote gorge for 35 years. He passed away in 2017, taking his own thoughts on his choice with him.

“Since then, his family, the press and the world at large has been left trying to understand how, and why, the “hermit of Wild Rivers” rejected society.:”

URL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hermit-australian-bush-mark-may-151359264.html

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Jo Nemeth, living moneyless

The Guardian presents an article on Jo Nemeth, who lives in Australia — and lives moneyless. Nemeth was partly inspired by Mark Boyle (whose book, The Moneyless Man, is reviewed by Hermitary). Byline: “Ten years ago, Jo Nemeth quit her job and closed her bank account. Today, she’s more committed than ever to her moneyless life.” Nemeth says: “I feel more secure than when I was earning.”

URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/feb/01/meet-the-woman-who-lives-without-money-i-feel-more-secure-than-when-i-was-earning
Jo Nemeth’s blog: https://jolowimpact.wordpress.com/
Hermitary review ofBoyle book: https://www.hermitary.com/bookreviews/boyle.html

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David Glasheen, Australian hermit

ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Company) offers a report titled “When David Glasheen lost everything, moving to a remote island saved him.”

“In his earlier life he lived in Sydney where he built a multi-million-dollar mining company. But he lost most of his family’s wealth, around $37 million today, in the stock market crash of 1987. Shortly after, his marriage broke down. He was ‘wounded, seriously wounded’.

“He arrived on Restoration Island after hearing about it through a friend — and never left.”

URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-23/ex-millionaire-david-glasheen-revived-by-remote-island-living/11310184

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Maija Zlatic, hermit mystery

Maija Zlatic, a Serbian-Australian widow who inherited over $5 million but deliberately lived in apparent poverty as a hermit in a mud hut in Serbia, died without a trace of the money she inherited from her late husband. She had supposedly given away the first million dollars awarded to her by an Australian court, but the rest of the money’s whereabouts is unknown. Her fellow-villagers are curious, suspecting that caregivers may have stolen everything.

URL: http://www.news.com.au/finance/money/maija-zlatic-a-serbian-woman-who-inherited-1m-from-her-australian-husband-has-died-and-her-neighbours-are-curious-about-her-fotune/news-story/51df02ef9a6eeab4e171dcdb86f71113; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3681914/Serbian-hermit-woman-dies-months-Australian-husband-left-1million.html