Flying fish and salt horse: seafaring tales
Today we are starting a new feature, a daily diary entry from the journal of 16 year old Richard Peele Hobson aboard the ship Philanthropist,… Read More »Flying fish and salt horse: seafaring tales
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The Italian and his Balloon: “An account of five aerial voyages in Scotland” by Vincenzo Lunardi
At 3:45 p.m. on this very day, 5 October, in 1785, an Italian by the name of Vincenzo Lunardi lifted off in his “aerostatic machine”… Read More »The Italian and his Balloon: “An account of five aerial voyages in Scotland” by Vincenzo Lunardi
52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 10: the Moody Journal, romantic and beautiful
On 27 July 1822 – 190 years to the day before this post is written – Thomas Moody set off from Paris to begin a… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 10: the Moody Journal, romantic and beautiful