After coming back and living for more than 4 years among his tribe, which has no writing of its own, he discovered the reasons behind many of their legends, myths and taboos, and so he recorded interviews with the elders of the tribe and published them in a book, Myths of Patai Bay.
夏曼重新回到沒有文字的部落，經過四年多的身體力行之後，發現很多神話傳說、禁忌，確實有其存在的深義，於是就四處訪問長者，記錄下來，目前已出版「八代灣的神話」一書。