Lou Bodenhemier
Lou Bodenhemier
Lou Bodenhemier
Lou Bodenhemier holds an MA in History from the University of Limerick and a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. He’s interested in maritime and disaster history as well as criminal history, and his dissertation focused on the werewolf trials of early modern Europe. At the present moment he can most likely be found perusing records of shipboard crime and punishment during the Age of Sail, or failing that, writing historical fiction horror stories. He lives in Dublin and hates the sun.
The Hermit of the Australian Bush: Mark May Lived Alone Off the Grid For 35 Years
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How Arab Traders Hid the Secrets of Cinnamon from Europe
At this point, it's fairly common knowledge that the...
