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WARREN TITUS TAUGHT US TO CRUISE THROUGH LIFE
david ellis THERE’S every likelihood you’ve never heard of Warren Titus. But for cruise-lovers it is Mr Titus – an ex-US Marine and one-time Hawaii cop – who almost single-handedly changed ocean travel from the pretty ordinary point-to-point sailing it was in the 1950s, to the luxurious and indulgent experience it is today. Warren Titus […]
FROM ROGUES TO RAJAHS, THE LIFE OF SEAN
david ellis TALKING to Sean Whalley makes you feel like you’ve somehow stepped into the pages of Boys Own Annual. If he’s not got you gripped with yarns of arresting rogue fishermen in gale-lashed waters off the Falkland Islands, or helping in rescues of distressed yachtsmen in equally foul Atlantic conditions, he’s recounting rubbing shoulders […]
FROM ROGUES TO RAJAHS, THE LIFE OF SEAN
david ellis TALKING to Sean Whalley makes you feel like you’ve somehow stepped into the pages of Boys Own Annual. If he’s not got you gripped with yarns of arresting rogue fishermen in gale-lashed waters off the Falkland Islands, or helping in rescues of distressed yachtsmen in equally foul Atlantic conditions, he’s recounting rubbing shoulders […]
IS THIS HOW CAPTAIN COOK REALLY DIED?
david ellis with malcolm andrews THE way that the death of Captain James Cook in the Hawaiian Islands has been taught to not only our children, but to others in schools around the world, is now being claimed as an extraordinary and deliberate distortion of the truth. And the man fighting hardest to set the […]
IS THIS HOW CAPTAIN COOK REALLY DIED?
david ellis with malcolm andrews THE way that the death of Captain James Cook in the Hawaiian Islands has been taught to not only our children, but to others in schools around the world, is now being claimed as an extraordinary and deliberate distortion of the truth. And the man fighting hardest to set the […]
NOTHING FAWLTY HERE NOW BASIL’S GONE – QUE?
david ellis THERE are no out of date kippers to kill you, and no conversations over breakfast with senile retired Army Majors or dear old things who are as deaf as posts. And the owner will neither abuse you when you ask a simple question nor, despite the fact you’re watching, take physically to an […]
NOTHING FAWLTY HERE NOW BASIL’S GONE – QUE?
david ellis THERE are no out of date kippers to kill you, and no conversations over breakfast with senile retired Army Majors or dear old things who are as deaf as posts. And the owner will neither abuse you when you ask a simple question nor, despite the fact you’re watching, take physically to an […]
GRIM START TO A SOUTH PACIFIC PARADISE
david Ellis IF it was any consolation to those French deportees foolhardy enough to misbehave so badly in the one-time penal colony of New Caledonia as to warrant execution, it was that they went to their deaths on one of the most famous guillotines in French history. Because when it became obvious to the commandant […]
GRIM START TO A SOUTH PACIFIC PARADISE
david Ellis IF it was any consolation to those French deportees foolhardy enough to misbehave so badly in the one-time penal colony of New Caledonia as to warrant execution, it was that they went to their deaths on one of the most famous guillotines in French history. Because when it became obvious to the commandant […]
BUBBLY WIDOW’S RIDDLE PUTS SPARKLE IN CHAMPAGNE
david ellis AT a time in the early 19th century when young married women were expected to stay home and look after the children, or if they were rich, stay home and pay someone else to look after the children, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin turned such norms on their head. The daughter of Count Nicholas Ponsardin, a […]
