Month: November 2015

Telegraph.co.uk Pacific by Simon Winchester, review: 'an impassioned account'Telegraph.co.ukWinchester dismisses the explorer Thor Heyerdahl's theory that Polynesia was first colonised by sailors from Peru. He has too much admiration for …

“Moby-Dick”: Melville's masterpiece gets an operatic treatmentPeople’s WorldAfter Melville's first novel was published in 1846, Typee, set in the Marquesas (between Tahiti and Hawaii in what is now French Polynesia), …

OregonWinePress.com Pour l'Amour du PinotOregonWinePress.comDomaine Divio is farmed Biodynamically — not surprising considering his French heritage — but his family doesn't farm this way in France, in part, because of …

lareviewofbooks From Tehrangeles to KashmirlareviewofbooksTexts such as the Tarikh-i Hasan (“Hasan's History”) thus drew on colonial statistical data, while the Urdu Tawarikh-i Guldasta-i Kashmir (“Bouquet of Kashmir's Histories”) conceived the …

Paris Match Marine Lorphelin en stage de médecine à TahitiParis MatchÀ 22 ans, Marine Lorphelin poursuit ses études de médecine avec passion et assiduité. Depuis quelques jours, l'ex-reine de beauté …