The bulk of this collection is devoted to the achievements of two pioneers Joshua Slocum and Percy Fawcett. Captain Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone - between 1892 and 1895 in a converted oyster fishing boat on his return chronicling his experiences in the book Sailing Alone Around the World. Colonel Fawcett was an ......
Pamir is the story of a ship from her building in 1905 to her loss at sea in 1957. She was one of the last of her kind a celebration of the age of sail of a seaman's craft developed over thousands of years only to lose out eventually to steam. Adrian Rogers has told her story as a tribute to all those who kept the world's ......
'Ecce Homo!' His challenge echoes down the centuries 'Behold the Man!' How will nine painters each with their own particular style culture attitudes and ambitions relate to the challenge? However they react Ecce Homo will relate to each individually. A painter may accept reject try to avoid or argue with Him. The reaction of a devout ......
A Way Less Travelled features different ways of looking at the world around us and the actions of people trying to see everyday things in a different light. It is inspired by the poetry and paintings of William Blake sharing his spiritual focus on the symbolism of Jerusalem and expressing a concern for justice and world peace.
Can you imagine a world without music? We shape sounds into words yet sound itself gives us the means to escape the bondage of words. We try to convey the essence of beauty in its most intense and ineffable forms even when we know that the most well chosen words cannot quite express the scope of our experience. In this collection ......
The Medicine Wheel turns through each of the eight sections in this collection with the poems gathered into each part touching on many subjects: nature poems running through the seasons personality portraits social concerns – such as the plight of refugees the treatment of animals and persecution leading one to consider the ......
The Sun Behind the Sun covers a great diversity of subjects moods and scenes with four distinct threads interweaving their way through the collection. Journeys the nature of time the four seasons and that question with so many possible answers: what is real and what is illusory? As for the collection’s title read the last ......
Migration has played a large part in Australia's history and culture since 1788 and in this collection Adrian Rogers reflects on the migrant experience evoking the northern hemisphere through his knowledge of Ireland and setting it against the reality of modern Australia thereby highlighting both the differences and similarities between the two ......
