How it Works
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Explore True History in real time
Explore True History in real time
At Uncharted Letters, you choose to subscribe monthly or yearly, and receive letters from all of our explorers, and get the bigger picture of Australian and South Pacific history. Our Explorers love when you write back and ask questions, suggest new historical events and add your own version of events. They may even go on a Time Travelling adventure just for you.
Explore True History in real time
Explore True History in real time
Explore True History in real time
Once you receive your letters you will feel like you were actually present at these great historical events, daring exploits and dangerous pastimes. Some times these letters will challenge your view of history, or at least what you were taught at school. Our aim to to make sure the true stories are told, and all sides of the event are considered.
Keep a weather eye on the mail
Explore True History in real time
Keep a weather eye on the mail
Letters are posted on the same day each month and you will receive in the mail, your beautifully crafted letter the old fashioned way, personally sealed with the Time Traveller's signature.
You will receive a letter each month, with each explorer sending their own letters every quarter, meaning each month you will hear from a different Time Traveller and their adventures.
OUR TIME TRAVELLERS & THEIR ADVENTURES
Captain, Explorer, Trader & Writer
Doctor, Naturalist, Artist & Photographer
Doctor, Naturalist, Artist & Photographer
Captain Billy Morgan is a seasoned sailer, adventurer, explorer, trader and known for his deep sea diving. He's set sail on many a daring voyage along South Pacific coastlines and has seen first hand the harrowing tales of colonisation. He engaged coastal Indigenous Australian tribes, learning their their way of life. He witnessed the arrival of the First Fleet and sailed with Captain Cook and Joseph Banks in Cooktown; shared tales with Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa; and even found himself on the decks of the Bounty during the infamous mutiny.
Doctor, Naturalist, Artist & Photographer
Doctor, Naturalist, Artist & Photographer
Doctor, Naturalist, Artist & Photographer
Dr Paton Scott is a medical doctor, naturalist and artist who is also a noted photographer. The "Doc" uses her medical knowledge to investigate medicinal practices from early Indigenous bush medicine, Witchcraft and the pressures of war doctors. Doc also had encounters with the Kelly Gang. During these times of travel, expect sketches, descriptions of plants and animals and photographs.
Missionary, Linguist, Cook & Composer
Doctor, Naturalist, Artist & Photographer
Missionary, Linguist, Cook & Composer
Princess Mei Lani is a former Missionary from the South Pacific who is a linguist and composer as well as a thoroughly good cook. Her ability to communicate across cultures, through language, food and music, is all curated as a result of the melting pot of early Colonial days and Pacific migration and the collective cultures that came by sea to populate the great South Seas and brought us together.
Master Navigator, Jeweller & Keeper
Doctor, Naturalist, Artist & Photographer
Missionary, Linguist, Cook & Composer
Jimmy Kaimana is a Master Navigator and Voyager with a cultural background including Melanesian, Polynesian and European. Known for his jewellery and carving of pearl shell, timber, tusks, bone and stone, he has knowledge of hundreds of years of South Pacific history. He is a keeper of knowledge and learnings in Kustom, Black Magic, belief systems and oral storytelling.