Throwback Thursday – Cast on the Shore of a Stranger
“No telegraph, no telephone, no mails even, to the Chincha Islands.” — An East Hampton Childhood Mary Esther Mulford Miller was referring to three islands off Peru so richly populated with seabirds that their dung was packed as deep as 200 feet. Guano is highly valued as a fertilizer, which is why the clipper John Milton was filled with… Read more »