At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol.  At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle.  At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar.  Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate.  To please his mother, who did not take kindly to his being a pirate, he briefly managed a mink farm, one of the few truly dull entries on his otherwise crackling resumé. Oh and did I mention he traversed both the Atlantic and Pacific in nothing but a rowboat? Read the obituary for John Fairfax who is, quite literally, the most interesting man. via motherjones

At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol.  At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle.  At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar.  Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate.  To please his mother, who did not take kindly to his being a pirate, he briefly managed a mink farm, one of the few truly dull entries on his otherwise crackling resumé.

Oh and did I mention he traversed both the Atlantic and Pacific in nothing but a rowboat?

Read the obituary for John Fairfax who is, quite literally, the most interesting man.

via motherjones