Irving Johnson

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Irving McClure Johnson (b. July 4, 1905 in Hadley, Massachusetts - d. January 2, 1991) was an American author, lecturer, adventurer, and sail training pioneer. Early home movies show a young Johnson training for a life at sea, climbing a telephone pole in his backyard, and wrestling to prepare for the inevitable fights he believed would occur due to his reading the novels of Jack London and Joseph Conrad.