Until the Europeans came, HONOLULU was insignificant; soon so many foreign ships were frequenting its waters that it had become Kamehameha's capital, and it remains the economic center of the island. The city covers a long (if narrow) strip of...
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With its Gothic spire rising against a backdrop of Morvan hills, AUTUN , even today, is scarcely bigger than the circumference of its medieval walls , and they in turn follow the line of earlier Roman fortifications. The emperor...
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DERRY lies at the foot of Lough Foyle, immediately before the border with the Republic. It's a crossroads city in more ways than one; roads from all cardinal points arrive here, but it was also a major point of emigration from the eighteenth century...
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