Charles Howerton was born in Cuero, Texas, in 1938, son of a Naval officer. At age ten he enjoyed exploring abandoned Japanese machine gun nests on Guam, at 12 sailing dinghies in Coronado bay amid navy ships, at 14 trekking in the Florida Everglades, and at 16 caught in the middle of a revolution to oust Juan Domingo Perón in Buenos Aires, ...