Bowl of guacamole surrounded by cherry tomatoes, avocados, lime, red onion, garlic and chilli peppers. - Candice Bell/Shutterstock Who knew that I would be writing about a pirate, a pen, and a bowl of ...

William Dampier can lay claim to a number of significant "firsts". He was the first Englishman to lead an expedition to Australia and document its wildlife and indigenous people. His mapping and ...

Rhys Darby (near right) stars opposite Taika Waititi and Rory Kinnear in the HBO Max comedy "Our Flag Means Death." Darby plays the real-life Stede Bonnet, an upper-crust plantation owner who ditches ...

Buccaneers, Charlatans, Marauders, and Swashbucklers. Throughout the centuries, our booty-hoarding friends have been branded by many rather dubious labels. Yet seldom does the average gangplank ...

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

Binder's title: Dampier's Voyages, v. 2. The volume numeration continues that of the 4th ed. of "A new voyage round the world." https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20 ...

William Dampier’s journals engraved in 1698. Courtesy of the Pacific Collection, Hamilton Library. Source: University of Hawai'i-Mānoa The earliest found European image of Aboriginal Australians, ...

A favourite bedtime book of mine is Alfred Russel Wallace's The Malay Archipelago (Macmillan, London, 1869). During my last read I found the following description of what sounds like a tsunami.