Tag Archives: Herman Melville

Is it Angst or Ennui?

I posted a blog Sunday – the first in over a month. To write that ‘I have been ill’ sounds too dramatic because I haven’t actually been sick. Sick-at-heart maybe, but nothing that calls for medical intervention. Every time President … Continue reading

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Sailing to the Galapagos

For a man who is on a first-name basis with Nathaniel Drinkwater (see author Richard Woodman), Jack Aubrey (see Patrick O’Brian), Horatio Hornblower (see C.S. Forester) and Richard Bolitho (see Alexander Kent), what could be better than sailing to the Galapagos and … Continue reading

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Whale Watching with Kuyima

“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in my purse and nothing to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery … Continue reading

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