Plus, historian and debut novelist Dan Jones on Guns N’ Roses, tattoos and his favorite books.
As a blinding storm rages, there’s precious little food, supplies or shelter from the pelting rain, hail and snow. The ship, the only means of escape, has been dashed upon the rocks where it’s breaking apart and sinking into the churning sea.
and John Lee, and this book scratches that same kind of maritime itch . I’m also planning a re-listen to the 21 book series as narrated by Patrick Tull, a favorite of writer Adrian McKinty as well as reader Kathy Matthews who emailed me a few years back to say, “I’ve been commuting to downtown L.A. for 15 years from San Pedro and Lomita. I run through all the O’Brian novels every other year or so.
Another thing, I try not to take for granted but surely do is the wealth of material we can access about our past, our history, our successes and our failures. I’d already been thinking about this when I read this line that Grann wrote about how he came to this story: “I was sauntering along the street: the day was hot: I was dressed just as you see me there,” according to Whitman as quoted in Horace Traubel’s “With Walt Whitman in Camden.” Whitman said the engraver, his friend Gabriel Harrison, had asked him to pose because Harrison was “dying for something to do.”
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