Captain Cook was cooked, but not eaten
A remarkable new book about the navigator, ‘Wide, Wide Sea’ by Hampton Sides, traces the adventurer’s third voyage and its fateful conclusion
A route through Monterey, by Robert Louis Stevenson
In this California town, as well as in the town of St. Helena and other enclaves in Napa County, the Scottish author found inspiration for two of his immortal works. Today, you can follow his footprints through museums, his house, and the landscapes that he captured in his books
Dolphins also have their dark side
Dolphins have a hidden side that is rarely talked about, whose history dates back millions of years when their ancestors walked on land
Luke Arnold, actor: ‘Captain Jack Sparrow and Long John Silver would have got along fine’
The star of the ‘Black Sails’ pirate series is also the author of the popular ‘Sunder City’ fantasy novels
The werewolf still walks among us
The anthropologist Roger Bartra examines the metamorphoses of the myth of the wild lycanthrope, a 4,000-year-old legend born to ‘identify the civilized’