Somewhere in the skies between Greenland and Iceland flight NHL234 from Vancouver to Frankfurt was lost with all hands, but this tragedy was no normal aviation disaster, it

Little Happy, a former fishing village off the coast of Mozambique, now a victim of climate change and almost abandoned as rising sea levels have reduced it to

The streets of Val Malaina in Rome in the post-war depression, the men queued up in hopes of finding employment; Antonio Ricci is fortunate to have been chosen

On the upper tip of the north island of New Zealand, Waikato is a large region of unspoiled wilderness and sparse communities, home to less than half a

A daydream or waking nightmare travels cross-country with Atticus Freeman, of flying saucers and tripod machines with death rays, of winged, tentacled demons and exotic women who descend

To the ancient astronomers, it pleased their beliefs that the cosmos was an ordered place where the stars and planets moved on fixed and fully predictable paths, that

Science would have it that sea monsters do not exist, but the tragic experience of Captain Seafield during a fishing trip the shores of Lake Michigan have led

The Black Hollow Cave in Kentucky, deep, dark and largely unexplored; for archaeologist John Brock it is more than just a challenge, it is his latest attempt to

It is ever the position of the subordinate to be given the tasks which the senior partners do not wish to undertake; so it is that Arthur Kidd

Banned from England, the Comprachicos, the child-buyers, have fled the country, leaving behind the mutilated child Gwynplaine who wanders through the snow where beneath the gallows, the bodies