re: ""The handwritten cards show that in 1925, decades before he wrote his novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway was borrowing Joshua Slocum’s memoir, Sailing Alone Around the World.""
A bit off topic, but Joshua Slocum’s book "Sailing Alone Around the World" sort-of changed my life after I read it when I was about 10. His writing was so good, I felt like I was sailing with him. I never did long distance cruising, but I owned capable sailboats for 24 years and sailed between SF and northern Mexico a fair amount.
Not off topic, reading good books is transformative and too many people in modern times substitute social media and generally reading crap on the web, "news", etc. Anyway, I enjoyed the reading lists in the article and am passing the article on to friends and family.
re: ""The handwritten cards show that in 1925, decades before he wrote his novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway was borrowing Joshua Slocum’s memoir, Sailing Alone Around the World.""
A bit off topic, but Joshua Slocum’s book "Sailing Alone Around the World" sort-of changed my life after I read it when I was about 10. His writing was so good, I felt like I was sailing with him. I never did long distance cruising, but I owned capable sailboats for 24 years and sailed between SF and northern Mexico a fair amount.
Not off topic, reading good books is transformative and too many people in modern times substitute social media and generally reading crap on the web, "news", etc. Anyway, I enjoyed the reading lists in the article and am passing the article on to friends and family.