Southern Seas

Lying in the very centre of a great chain of trade routes stretching from Basra and Zanzibar to Canton and Nagasaki, the area of the Southern Seas has always been one of exceptional mobility: a cauldron of diasporas. For centuries, Chinese migrants have crossed these waters. We know them chiefly...

It lives in the hole where the moon used to be. And for most of the worst part of the Northern winter, over the last two decades, so have we. The real South Pacific was not a Bali Hai musical, but a drama of cannibals and castaways, headhunters and slavers, paradise and perdition.

A Los Angeles Times investigative reporter’s cinematic account of the infamous Palisades fire and the far-reaching history of California wildfires— arguing that until we understand the full impact of fire in the region, we can never hope to prevent or mitigate them in the future. On January...

Bloomsbury presents Under the Southern Cross by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, read by Lance C Fuller. A vivid narrative history of the Solomons and New Guinea campaigns of World War II, which represented key turning points in the U.S. Navy's campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific. From August 7...