The exceptional genre painting of ‘The Arrival of Abel Tasman in New Zealand’ by Everhardus Koster cannot find a buyer. As Dr. Mark Stocker explains, this is not because of any aesthetic defects, but because of its subject matter and the fate ...
Tonga was the center of a South Pacific seafaring empire and as a way to please their kings and gain prestige Tongans played deadly underwater kasivaki rugby.