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...cowlicked protagonist owes his life to a passing sea captain, who rescues him and his faithful fox terrier Snowy from the Red Sea, into which they have been thrown overboard. That captain was based on the real-life French adventurer, hashish smuggler and sometime opium grower Henry de Monfreid - and the recent reissue of De Monfreid's beguiling 1933 memoir Hashish: A Smuggler's Tale is a cause for rejoicing among all those who love briny confessionals and barroom brags. De Monfreid was a man who condemned shoes as "cursed things," and his arch and irresistible narrative is appropriately free...
...artist, and a consummate upper-class drifter of romantic bent, De Monfreid died in 1974 at the age of 95. In the first half of his life, he traded coffee, dived for pearls, smuggled arms and trafficked hashish off the coasts of East Africa and southern Arabia. Upon his return to France, he began a second career as a highly prolific author, drawing on his experiences to produce more than 60 works of fiction, biography, history and journalism. He even dabbled in painting and photography...
News Editor for this Issue: Shari Rudavsky '88 Night Editors: Brooke A. Masters '89 Steve L. Lichtman '88 Copy Editor: Melissa R. Hart '91 Editorial Editors: Abagail M. McGanney '87-'88 Photo Editor: David K. Eldan '89 Features Editor: Andrea E. Monfreid '88 Sports Editor: Jennifer M. Frey '90 Business Editor: Willa Berghuis...