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2 unusual facts about Gordon Waterman Chaplin


Gordon Waterman Chaplin

His memoir, Dark Wind:: A Survivor’s Tale of Love and Loss (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999) details the tragedy of their next voyage, which ended with Susan’s death in a typhoon in the Marshall Islands, halfway across the Pacific.

Chaplin grew up in Nassau, Bahamas, where his father, Charles C. G. Chaplin, worked as an ichthyologist and co-authored the taxonomic textbook Fishes of the Bahamas and Adjacent Tropical Waters (Livingston Press 1968:, University of Texas Press 1992).



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