CRUISE SHIP LECTURES
In this new section, Prow's Edge Cruise Magazine features cruise lecture "notes" from celebrated cruise lecturers like Dr John Augelli, who has authored a number of books, and Sabin Robbins, a celebrated author-naturalist.
If you wish you had made notes on that last cruise - have no fear -
everything you wish you had made a note of is here at Prow's Edge Cruise Magazine.
THE SECRET LIFE OF WHALES
I suspect that among the younger generations, the term “Vikings” is more readily associated with a Minnesota football team than with the Nordic adventurers who once terrorized much of Europe and left their footprints on several places to be visited on a cruise.
• The Secret Life of Whales
THE FALKLAND ISLANDS
I suspect that among the younger generations, the term “Vikings” is more readily associated with a Minnesota football team than with the Nordic adventurers who once terrorized much of Europe and left their footprints on several places to be visited on a cruise.
• Falkland Islands in Time, Place and War
THE CAYMAN ISLANDS
Making a living on the islands of the Caribbean, especially the smaller ones, has been a tough challenge ever since the fall of the sugar economy based on African slavery in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries early.
• The Cayman Islands: Money and Banking in the Sun
FOOTPRINT OF THE VIKINGS
I suspect that among the younger generations, the term “Vikings” is more readily associated with a Minnesota football team than with the Nordic adventurers who once terrorized much of Europe and left their footprints on several places to be visited on a cruise.
• Footprint of The Vikings
ITALY: THE UNDYING CHALLENGE OF REGIONALISM
Given the sophistication of my audience, I shall not try to define regionalism except to say that: 1) regionalism is identification with and often a sense of loyalty to a particular segment of the country; 2) that regional loyalty can become so marked that it leads to separatist movements; 3) that the most intense crisis in American history stemmed from regionalism.
• Italy: the Undying Challenge of Regionalism
HISTORICAL ORIGINS AND REGIONAL PATTERNS OF ITALIAN COOKING
Because so much of the Italian immigration to the United States came from the Naples area and the Italian South, American perceptions of Italian food tend to be restricted to pizza, spaghetti, ravioli, lasagne, eggplant parmigiana, minestrone, and other dishes typical of Naples and southern Italy.
• Historical Origins and Regional Patterns of Italian Cooking
THE SAN BLAS CUNA OF THE PANAMA
The Cuna Indians of the San Blas Islands of Panama constitute less than 2% of the country's total population, but in many ways they are among the best known and most colorful element in the multi-racial tapestry of the Isthmus. In fact, according to several anthropologists, Cuna identity is probably stronger than any other Indian group in Central America. Their success in cultural survival through adjustment to change has been such that they are serving as a model to other indigenous groups on the Isthmus. Why have the Cuna remained so distinctive? No one really knows for sure, but their history and habitat provide some clues.
• The San Blas Cuna of the Panama
