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An illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will change the way he is perceived and understood. Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961--from his pinnacle until his suicide--Paul Hendrickson traces the writer's exultations and despair around the one constant in his life during this time: his beloved boat, Pilar. We follow him from Key West to Paris, to New York, Africa, Cuba, and finally Idaho, as he wrestles with...
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This Globe Trekker episode follows Lavinia Tan on a trip through Florida and the Bahamas, a place of theme parks, sun, and sand, also home of the largest sub-tropical wilderness in the U.S. and the only place in the Western hemisphere to have launched man into space. In Miami, Lavinia goes to the Cuban Calle Ocho street party, sees South Beach's Art Nouveau architecture, attends the Gay and Lesbian Winter Party, and visits the Holocaust Memorial....