Author and journalist Alan Littell has worked as a merchant mariner and as a newspaper reporter and editor in Boston and Paris. Best known as a nationally distributed travel writer-his credits include The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and Travel & Leisure Magazine-he is author of a novel of the sea, "Courage," published in 2007 by St. Martin's Press. Littell's latest book, "Winter Passage," is a selection of his essays, memoirs and travel articles...