footenotes

jefferson's moose

turning points
in history

animal behavior

france & the french

battle of the sexes

wars & revolution

afloat & ashore

gone today
here tomorrow

Afloat -- and Ashore

Sloops du Jour off Newport where hopelessness springs eternal The 1977 America's Cup brings out all the low dodges, delusive hopes and suspensions of common sense so essential to refined underdoggery.

An Adman's Call of the Wild Excellent skiing, hiking, boating and swimming at your back door." The Bear Creek people need someone to wax poetic in prose about things they sell.

Hungry for History WE FOLLOWED ODYSSEUS by Hal Roth.

In Rhode Island: Rapture of the Shallows A lemon-hued, one-man submarine that can dive safely to 250 ft., stay submerged for an hour at a time and costs (at $12,000 without extras) less than a Cadillac Seville.

In the Whale's Wake THE JONAH MAN by Henry Carlisle.

No Revolution ever produced a nobler or a purer spirit. Sailing by the Sticks with Erskine Childers. The Irish struggle for home rule.

Operation Sail Aboard the Topsail Schooner Juan Sebastian de Elcano Being a guest aboard, when the ship is under motor power (as she usually is when there's less than a 15-knot breeze) is a little like one's imagination of a cruise on some vast, white Edwardian yacht.

Shadows on the Rock France and Spain join forces during the Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-1790.

Tapestried Tales of Two Rough Channel Crossings Invasions of England in 1066 by the Normans and of France in 1944 by the Allies, revisited as needlework.

The Siege of Leyden How the Netherlands escaped the grip of Catholic Spain and the Holy Roman Empire in 1518.

Travels with Alfred: On Assignment with One of the World's Great Photographers The photographers, at the top of one of the most demanding and competitive professions in the world, took the pictures without which there would be no story - and no magazine.

How to Keep the 20th Century Mostly at Bay The tiny island of Sark still carries on with low-budget feudalism, dislike of cars and its mixed memories of a Great Dame.