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Re: Obituary for Ambrogio Fogar
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2005 Sep 16, 15:40 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2005 Sep 16, 15:40 +1000
> From: Courtney Thomas > > If you hear of an English translation of Fogar please let me know "Fogar was also a prolific author, including titles such as the award winning "The Atlantic and I" [Il mio Atlantico], "The Raft" [La zattera]; others include "Four Hundred Days Around the World" [Quattrocento giorni intorno al mondo], "The Bermuda Triangle" [Il Triangolo delle Bermude], "Messages in a Bottle" [Messaggi in bottiglia]. (AGI)" That came from AGI, an acronym for something like 'Italian Daily News Agency'. It may only inform us of all of his books that haven't been translated into English. > I live in Atlanta, unfortunately, though the homeport for my boat is > Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. The reason I mention this is that I > hope to sail over to your area as soon as I'm competent to do so :-) None of us ever get that competent, except by putting out to sea. I guess if you wanted to bring your boat closer to Atlanta it would come south along the east coast, much of the way possibly via the Intra-coastal Waterway. Is it still a viable alternative to sail through the Great Lakes then south, initially through a canal then via the Mississippi?