Tim Chamberlain 🧭

@waymarks.bsky.social

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Historian, interested in Exploration & Empire. PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. FRGS. https://tim-chamberlain.owlstown.net/

Photo of the cover of "Explorers on Screen: Adventure! Danger! Romance!" Edited by Sue Matheson & Cynthia J. Miller (Edinburgh University Press, 2026) illustrated with a photograph of actor Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones on horseback. A moment of high energy, adrenaline and adventure is caught in the arrested glance of the horse's eye, which looks directly out of the image, echoed by Indiana Jones's angry look of concentrated determination and fearful concern.
A new paperback copy of 'Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds' edited by Paul Gilchrist, Peter H. Hansen & Jonathan Westaway (MUP 2024), sitting on a wooden tabletop with an embroidered Turkish carpet-style bookmark poking out at the top. The book's cover image shows a predominantly blue and white photo of snow, sky, and rock; this being "the summit ridge of Everest" taken in 1953, with a trail of footprints disappearing up the ridgeline into the far distance.
A tangle of dark branches seen against a clear blue sky, covered with reddish-pink plum blossoms and a small green Mejiro bird perched in the middle (March 2024). [NB - Apologies: I've just realised I mistakenly wrote 'cherry tree' in the ALT text of the last photo; hopefully, it's obvious I meant 'plum tree.']
A close-up view of the dark, gnarly-textured bark of a cherry tree with gorgeous light pink blossoms bursting out along its trunk and branches; blue sky and green grass can be seen out-of-focus in the background (March 2024).
A photo of me, wearing a woolly hat and warm coat, holding up a small red Daruma doll which we had blessed by one of the priests, with the beautiful roof of one of the temple buildings in the background (March 2024).
A view of Jindai-ji courtyard filled with stalls selling Daruma figures of all sizes, and crowded with people of all ages. The temple building in the background, seen here through bare tree limbs under a bright blue sky, is decorated with coloured flags.
A view of traditional wooden temple buildings seen through tree branches, some with green and some with red leaves. The tree in the middle also has a profusion of white flowers which seem to cascade in bunches from the tall boughs above.
The courtyard of Jindai-ji, a Buddhist temple in Japan, surrounded by green trees, under a blue sky with fluffy white clouds on a sunny day, with groups of visitors milling about (October, 2024).
Photo of the front cover of “Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan’s Empire in Korea and Manchuria” by Joseph A. Seeley (Cornell Uni Press, 2024), showing a montage of a green and red topographical map of a river over an archive photo of five Japanese colonial police men, wearing long coats and fur-lined hats, walking with a dog across a snowy landscape.
An old black and white photo of a young, smiling, bespectacled Scottish pop duo, known as: The Proclaimers.
Headline digital artwork image from the article, showing a yellow silhouette of a church building with one large and two small spires and a large red sun motif radiating behind it.