因畅销小说《根》而荣获普利策奖的阿历克斯·哈利曾说过:“航海活动对我来说是一种超脱。”哈利随货船旅行,每次都要在海上呆一两个月。在美国海岸巡逻队20年的海上生活中他自学了写作,哈利解释说,“最初是给国内的亲友写信,讲述自己的海上生活。后来,同船的伙伴们发现我经常寄 Alex Harry, who won the Pulitzer Prize for best-selling novel Root, once said: “Sailing is a detached way for me.” Harry traveled with the cargo ship every time he was at sea One or two months. Writing self-taught at sea for two decades with the U.S. Coast Guard, Harry explained, "Initially, I wrote letters to relatives and friends in my home about my own life at sea, and later my companions found that I often mailed