A Pirate Looks at Fifty
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (859 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0449005860 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Light, Interesting Read We really enjoy books written by Jimmy Buffett. They are well written, humorous and easy reads. A Pirate Looks at Fifty has moments of poignancy, humor and interesting tidbits about Jimmy's life. Since we are Jimmy Buffet fans, we both really enjoy this book. We have had A Pir. derJeager said a Boomer's Concise Guide to Solace. "A Pirate Turns Fifty" may be one of those idioms of that time and place where a generation of North Americans found some sense of becoming, and then, of being, the first generation of people born beyond the confines of an adversarial view of the human condition.If you enjoy t. "Wonder why we ever go home" according to realtallshorty. After my first visit to "the tropics" (Bonaire, Cozumel, Grand Cayman, Key West, Grand Bahama, etc.) and my first Jimmy Buffett concert six years ago - I have been trying to re-enter "the real world". I needed to "settle down", pay my bills on time and receive an allotted amou
For the millions of fans of Jimmy Buffett's music as well as his bestselling books, Tales From Margaritaville and Where Is Joe Merchant?, here is the ultimate Jimmy Buffett philosophy on life and how to live it. As hard as it is to believe, the irrepressible Jimmy Buffett has hit the half-century mark and, in A PIRATE LOOKS AT 50, he brings us along on the remarkable journey which he took through the Southern hemisphere to celebrate this landmark birthday. Jimmy takes us 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 harbor. We follow Jimmy to jungle outposts in Costa Rica and on a meandering trip down the , through hair-raising negotiations with gun-toting customs officials and a 3-year-old aspiring co-pilot. And he is the inimitable Jimmy Buffett through it all. For Parrotheads, for armchair adventurers, and for anyone who appreciates a good yarn and a hearty laugh, here is the ultimate backstage pass -- you'll read the kind of stories Jimmy usually reserves for his closest friends and you'll see a wonderful, wacky life through eyes of the man who's lived it. A PIRATE LOOKS AT 50 is a breath of fresh air and a ingenious manual for getting to 50 and beyond.From the Hardcover edition.
Yet Buffett's infectious, grinning attitude towards life eventually finds resurrection in extended riffs on fly-fishing, solo piloting over water, and surfing. For Buffett, turning 50 "can be a ball of snakes that conjures up immediate thoughts of mortality and accountability. Tales from Margaritaville (stories) and Where Is Joe Merchant? (a mystery) secured songwriter Jimmy Buffett's niche reputation as an affable, poetic beach bum. . A Pirate Looks at Fifty, a travel-diary-cum-autobiography, features Buffett behind the wheel of his Grumman Albatross seaplane, safely piloting family and friends through a three-week trip around South and Central America and the Caribbean. In such passages, he earns his claim to a "saline psyche," a l