There is an old saying about the best-laid plans of men and mice – and I seem to be living proof of it. Despite my best intentions, the blog of my adventures as I began this odyssey never eventuated. And now, four years after beginning this journey, the book is complete and was launched at …
“If what you are following, however, is your own true adventure, if it is something appropriate to your deep spiritual need or readiness, then magical guides will appear to help you. If you’re ready for it, doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. …
“If what you are following, however, is your own true adventure, if it is something appropriate to your deep spiritual need or readiness, then magical guides will appear to help you. If you’re ready for it, doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. …
Life for a young lad in Nantucket in the 1800s was fairly well-defined. A minimum education based on Quaker principles and then at age 14 an apprenticeship, usually with your father, more often than not on a whaling ship, for whaling was the principal industry of Nantucket until the 1850s. Young David Whippey [the name …
We have seen how Herman Melville waxed lyrical about the prodigious skills of the Nantucket men who navigated the world’s oceans in search of the oil of the sperm whale, likening them to Alexander the Great. We have also seen that he wrote of their exploits in the novel Moby Dick, the story of Captain …
I arrived in Suva in early February at the height of a very severe outbreak of dengue fever. Hospitals and medical centres across the country were struggling to treat those affected and calls for blood donors were a regular occurrence. Forewarned, I had brought my can of DEET repellent from Brisbane but found I could …
The picturesque historic island of Nantucket lies some 30 miles off the coast of Boston, Massachusetts. Originally the home of the Wampanoag people, the island was purchased by a consortium of English settlers in 1659.Their names were Tristram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Christopher Hussey, Richard Swain, Thomas Barnard, Peter Coffin, Stephen Greenleaf, John Swain, …
All stories have a beginning, a middle and an end, and the story of David Whippy is no exception. Nor is the story of my interest in his life, albeit it has yet to end. Thinking back, I realise that the first time I heard of this man was in 1980 when I was …
Levuka the old capital of Fiji. Ni sa bula vinaka from Levuka, the old capital of Fiji. I am here on a very special journey, to trace the life and adventures of a man who was an important part of the history of Fiji prior to Cession to Great Britain in 1874. That man’s name …