Adrift on the Deep Blue Sea, This Crazy Mediterranean Voyage in a Rowboat Summed up His Alcoholic Life

HAVE you ever dreamed of floating idly on the placid face of the blue Mediterranean? It's a beautiful dream: a sun overhead that rises out of Asia Minor, and all around you the ultramarine water that laps the shores of Africa and Europe, the monolith of Gibraltar, the sands of ancient Egypt, the lands of Ptolemy and Homer.