Year: 2015

Coast Weekend Chris Bryant to open November art showCoast Weekend“Our beautiful Northwestern vistas inspire me, as do foreign scenes like the Venetian canals, Greek towns, Cuban people and the Marquesan …

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 …