Posts by Pamela
Gone Fishin’
My Own True Love and I are off for another adventure. This time we’re headed for Tuscany: art, food, architecture, textiles and, I suspect, a little bit of history. (Can you say Renaissance Florence?) While we’re gone, feel free to poke around in the archives. You might find something you missed the first time around.…
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A Spy in the Spice Trade
You know the beginning of this story. In the fifteenth century, Portugal under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator * began maritime exploration along the coast of Africa. More or less a hundred years later, a Portuguese fleet commanded by Vasco da Gama reached India. After a certain amount of bumbling around, Portugal transformed…
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A Splendid Savage: An Interview with Steve Kemper
I’m a Steve Kemper fan. Four years ago, I read his A Labyrinth of Kingdoms with the sort of all encompassing fascination I brought to Gone with the Wind when I was thirteen. I’ve been eagerly awaiting his newest book, A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham, for at least two years.* …
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