newfoundland
A high seas adventure unlike any other
Erin J. Dolin tells the gripping story of what happened after an American whaler, the Mentor, was wrecked on a reef in the western Pacific in 1832
Butchered for feather beds: the brutal end of the great auk
The large, flightless birds that once inhabited the North Atlantic cliffs in their millions were extinct by the 1840s, as the demand for down-filled mattresses increased
Feeding the world
The Shetland Islands and the Faroes may seem to be somewhere out there in distant waters, marginal and in the…
