1940s
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Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures
Gulf Stream
Islands in the Stream
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Martha Gellhorn
Nicholas Reynolds
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Papa Hemingway
Pilar
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Sailor
secret lives of writers
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Soldier
Spy
The Old Man and the Sea
u-boats
US Navy
Writer
Product details
- ISBN 9781416597872
- Weight: 343g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Sep 2011
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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From the summer of 1942 until the end of 1943, Ernest Hemingway spent much of his time patrolling the Gulf Stream and the waters off Cuba’s north shore in his fishing boat, Pilar. He was looking for German submarines. These patrols were sanctioned and managed by the US Navy and were a small but useful part of anti-submarine warfare at a time when U boat attacks against merchant shipping in the Gulf and the Caribbean were taking horrific tolls. While almost no attention has been paid to these patrols, other than casual mention in biographies, they were a useful military contribution as well as a central event (to Hemingway) around which important historical, literary, and biographical themes revolve.
Terry Mort was born and raised in Poland, Ohio, and attended Princeton, where he wrote his senior thesis on the Hemingway Hero. Carlos Baker, Hemingway's official biographer, was one of the readers. Initially interested in a career in academics, Terry opted instead to enlist in the Navy and spent three years on active duty-- two on the West Coast, which included a tour of Vietnam.
