Travels round the edge of history
David BowenIntriguing history from intriguing places, by David Bowen
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The curious case of the disappearing islands
If you look up Bouvet island, you will read that it is the most remote island on earth. It belongs to Norway, is uninhabited, and is 1,100 miles from Antarctica and 1,570 miles from South Africa. It looks as bleak as you might expect:
But...
Two men and a boat head for the North Pole
We arrived in Tromsø on the Nordkapp, one of the Hurtigruten fleet that ploughs up and down the Norwegian coast. We were well into the Arctic Circle and it felt like it. It was April, but the temperature hovered around freezing. Across the...
The 1911 Quiz: Number Eleven
Each question is taken from an entry in this volume, which runs from VET to ZYM. What is the entry? I’ve written a piece on the background to the quiz here. Even if you don’t know an answer, I hope you find the explanation below enlightenin...
The island of the Greeks and its dazzling genius
Very occasionally I go to places that are exactly as they should be. The Temple of Concordia is one of them: a perfect Greek temple.
But it’s a long way from Greece. We were in south-west Sicily, just outside the town of Agrigento. There a...
The Riddle of the Sands gives up its secret
I took a short ferry ride to Norderney, one of the east Frisian islands off the north coast of Germany. The ship chugged along a channel carved out of the mud, with seals watching as we passed by; the ‘sea’ is mud most of the day. We passed...
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Former journalist and consultant, now full time writer, traveller and - I hope - historian.
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