exploration
Sep 4, 2026
The Hook That Hauled Up Land
A journal entry on Te Matau a Māui, the demigod's fishhook said to have raised the North Island of New Zealand from the sea, and its afterlife as a constellation in Hawaiian sky-lore.
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Aug 30, 2026
Where the Whistlers Fly
On the old English belief in the Seven Whistlers, the unseen birds whose calls marked the boundary between the known road and the country beyond it, and on what the blank edges of old maps once meant to those who had to cross them.
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Aug 23, 2026
Where the Ink Runs Out
A look at terra incognita, the old cartographer's term for the unmapped edge of the world, and the dragons, monsters and blank spaces that filled it.
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