World of the Written Word

From Radio New Zealand From time immemorial, man has navigated by the stars.  Then, over two thousand years ago, someone in China disco...

From the BBC   The wreck of a World War One German submarine is gradually resurfacing on a beach in northern France after decades of...

A marvelous essay by Katherine Rundell, published in the London Review of Books In 1584 , as Ivan the Terrible lay dying, he called from ...

We recently went on a cruise around New Zealand.  Well, I guess it was time we saw our country from the outside, but it did mean that we ...

DEAR DIARY - DAY 1 All packed for the cruise ship - all my nicest dresses, swimsuits, short sets. Really, really exciting. Ou...

Just over a year ago, the luxury yacht Tango, rated as #14 in its class,  slipped into Auckland, and caused whispers in the port. As t...

Volunteers slept on the beach to protect the salvage of an old schooner. From the New Zealand Herald   Melanie Earley and Torika Toka...

Could it have been something in the rum? He might have been handsome once, but not only is he a skeleton of his former self, but he gav...

The pigeons are coming home to roost ... with legal difficulty In the NYT , Alexandra Stevenson and Elizabeth A. Harris report. The...

How fascinating.  It wasn't until 1910.  Yet we feel as if fingerprint evidence has been around for much longer than that. But The ...