A Pirate Looks at Fifty
A travelogue from a trip to the Caribbean to celebrate the authors’ 50th birthday.
Singer, songwriter and author, Jimmy Buffet sadly died on 1 September,2023.
To celebrate his 50th birthday, Jimmy Buffet took his family on a three-week trek around the Caribbean and wrote this colourful travelogue with his ultimate philosophy on life and how to live it. One review said reading this book is like “sitting with Buffett at a beachside bar, listening to him spin tales”.
Interspersed with memoirs of his youth and music career – both of which revolve around his continuing search for the perfect fishing spot – you’ll read the kind of stories Jimmy usually reserves for his closest friends and see a wonderful, wacky life through the eyes of the man who’s lived it.
The book takes the reader from the legendary pirate coves of the Florida Keys to the ruins of ancient Cartegena. Along the way, we hear a tale or two of how he got his start in New Orleans, how he discovered his passion for flying planes, and how he almost died in a watery crash in Nantucket harbour. We follow Jimmy to jungle outposts in Costa Rica and on a meandering trip down the Amazon, through hair-raising negotiations with gun-toting customs officials and a three-year-old aspiring co-pilot.
And he is the inimitable Jimmy Buffett through it all.
By Jimmy Buffett
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group; 7th edition (November 28, 2000)
ISBN-13: 978-0449005866
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