At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle.
At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate. To please his mother, who did not take kindly to his being a pirate, he briefly managed a mink farm, one of the few truly dull entries on his otherwise crackling résumé
John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74 - NYTimes.com
Fantastic obit for the man who rowed across the Atlantic (solo) and Pacific (tandem) oceans.
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