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ON TRACK PRESERVING OUR STEAMY PAST
David Ellis WHAT ever it is about trains that attracts people – and it seems the older the trains, the more the attraction – Trainworks has struck gold doing it with the largest rail museum in the Southern Hemisphere. And located at Thirlmere around just an hour’s drive southwest of Sydney’s CBD, it attracts 34,000 […]
CLEANING UP THE REAL ROBINSON CRUSOE
JUAN FERNANDEZ’ Robinson Crusoe Island ALEXANDER Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe’s) cave home for four years and four months STATUE of Alexander Selkirk in his home town of Lower Largo, Scotland DANIEL Defoe’s original book MODERN day Robinson Crusoe Islanders survive on small tourist trade and lobster fishing David Ellis WHEN a cantankerous, foul-mouthed seaman named Alexander […]
CLEANING UP THE REAL ROBINSON CRUSOE
JUAN FERNANDEZ’ Robinson Crusoe Island ALEXANDER Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe’s) cave home for four years and four months STATUE of Alexander Selkirk in his home town of Lower Largo, Scotland DANIEL Defoe’s original book MODERN day Robinson Crusoe Islanders survive on small tourist trade and lobster fishing David Ellis WHEN a cantankerous, foul-mouthed seaman named Alexander […]
GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S TRAIN FOR THOUGHT
David Ellis WHEN the Seventh Earl of Hopetoun, a Scottish aristocrat, politician and one-time Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria, was appointed first Governor-General of the new Commonwealth of Australia, it was felt he should have his own railway carriage to journey around the countryside to meet his people – albeit that this countryside would be […]
GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S TRAIN FOR THOUGHT
David Ellis WHEN the Seventh Earl of Hopetoun, a Scottish aristocrat, politician and one-time Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria, was appointed first Governor-General of the new Commonwealth of Australia, it was felt he should have his own railway carriage to journey around the countryside to meet his people – albeit that this countryside would be […]
CAPTAIN COOK’S DEATH TRAGIC MISUNDERSTANDING?
DEATH of Captain James Cook as depicted by British artist George Carter in 1783 from descriptions by Cook’s crew. David ElliswithJohn Rozentals ON the jagged shoreline of Kealakekua Bay — a small, beautiful inlet on the western coast of Hawaii’s Big Island —a simple stark-white monument is of particular significance to Australian visitors here in […]
CAPTAIN COOK’S DEATH TRAGIC MISUNDERSTANDING?
DEATH of Captain James Cook as depicted by British artist George Carter in 1783 from descriptions by Cook’s crew. David ElliswithJohn Rozentals ON the jagged shoreline of Kealakekua Bay — a small, beautiful inlet on the western coast of Hawaii’s Big Island —a simple stark-white monument is of particular significance to Australian visitors here in […]
LURED BY THE SPIRIT OF AMELIA EARHART
David Ellis with Malcolm Andrews AN oceanographic research ship slipped almost unnoticed out of Honolulu on the 2nd of this month bound for a miniscule dot in the ocean called Nikumaroro in little Kiribati, one of the tiniest island nations in the vast Pacific. Aboard was a team of scientists and aviation enthusiasts keen to […]
IT’S ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR PIETRI
David ElliswithMalcolm Andrews FEW celebrities have had more urban myths attributed to them than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Scottish family doctor who created fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and his legendary residence at 221B Baker Street in north London. Because if you believe the rumours, Conan Doyle was notorious for being involved in any number […]
GOLD FIND CAME AS A FLASH OF LIGHT
David Ellis ONE day in the mid-1800s when a prospector named David Lindsay was sweltering away in a dry creek bed where it was 40-degrees in the shade – and there was no shade – he stopped to pick at a brilliantly coloured stone from which flashes of red danced devilishly under the harsh Central […]
