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...Divers readied their gear and plunged directly overboard while snorkelers and shell gatherers headed to the beach in a dinghy. Later that afternoon, a small fishing boat pulled alongside the Marco Polo to reveal a hold full of the day's catch. After a few minutes of haggling, the fisherman agreed to $5 and hoisted three meter-long tuna aboard...
Luther Fox, riven from his family, seeks oblivion. That's not hard to find when you are an illegal fisherman off the remote West Australian coast. Georgie Jutland, a seen-it-all nurse, is looking for healing. They meet. Things get prickly. After Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List) and Peter Carey (True History of the Kelly Gang), Winton is Australia's most revered writer. But he is younger and more averse to romanticizing his harsh native landscape. Dirt Music is like that landscape: you can't skip through it, but its unflinching beauty will...
...discovered, was deaf. As we stood around contemplating our next move, he started pointing to the island and making paddling gestures. We clearly were not the first foreigners to visit the micro paradise. Probas, as we later found out he was called, brought us to his father, a fisherman named Makhan. We negotiated a price for the trip?a couple of dollars?and the two of them led us through the fields into a mangrove swamp. Our feet sank into mud so black and thick it seemed they would never come back out. But Probas guided our steps and eventually...
...houses several museums, including the Hungarian National Gallery with its extensive collection of Gothic, Baroque and modern Hungarian art. Above the palace stands the Matthias Church, which was reconstructed in neo-Gothic style at the end of the 19th century over a much simpler original built in 1255. The Fisherman's Bastion, erected near the church, provides sweeping views of the seven bridges spanning the Danube, as well as Pest on the other side - which should be your next destination...
DIED. GREGORIO FUENTES, 104, fisherman, thought to have inspired Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novella The Old Man and the Sea; in Cojimar, Cuba. The hard-drinking raconteur became a legend in Cojimar, where, in exchange for cash or rum, he regaled tourists with embellished reminiscences of Papa H., whose fishing boat he skippered for some 20 years...