Captain James Henry's feat is admirable, who learned to read at age 92 years old and wrote a book at age 98. For so many years no one understood that he was illiterate.

Until it happened 92 years old Captain James Henry never learned to read. Nor, Nevertheless, he never admitted it. When he went out to eat, he was looking at the catalog and as soon as someone placed an order he would say: “A, Yes, this is good, I'll take it too”. When it was time for the bill, before he could leave the receipt the waiter was telling him: “Tell us, what do we owe you”.

Six years ago he learned that George Dawson learned letters at age 98 years old and wrote a book at age 101 and said: “I will too”. Shocked by the loss of his wife, stop trying, but in recent years he started reading again, but also to write his book. He spent hours with a dictionary in hand, looking for the right words, while he had significant help from a retired teacher friend of his.

In the book “In A Fisherman’s Language”, which is also his autobiography, he recounts the difficult situations he went through at sea, but also the death of a fisherman friend.

Source : protothema.gr