Wooden ships on the water, free and easy? The real wooden ships that defined our sense of the world globally--that gave us our first real sense of planet--never sailed free and easy. Discipline (enforced or not), mateship, composure under intense pressure, the navigational skill of the day--and pure blind heart for adventure drove them. Can you imagine what it wouldve been like to be on deck and hear James Cook say, Save the salted pork for the sighting of something unusual. As in a huge belching volcano by moonlight more than 9,000 miles from London--that kind of thing? Just marginally unusual enough for Captain Cook (theyd been around a bit by then)--a tip of porter and a taste of pig. Álvaro de Mendaña, a Spanish navigator and captain of dark mornings, discovered not only the major Solomon Islands in 1568--but the particular one a girl would come from centuries years later. Shes dead now. But I remember her rather well. I understand how Brooklyn and Hollywood excite Brooklyn and Hollywood people. I get the cultural significance. Ive also dived and walked along the beaches of Guadalcanal. And Ive thrown something into the waves that does come back. youtube/watch?v=O69L2mO9y-4&feature=kp
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:24:11 +0000
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