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Meaghan Wilson Anastasios is an author and journalist. Meaghan is a scriptwriter and researcher for film and TV and an accredited member of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Loot – a documentary series she created and wrote – that draws on her experience as an archaeologist and art world insider is currently in production and set to air on SBS, and globally, in 2022. If that wasn’t enough, she also has a feature documentary in development with Film Victoria funding.

Meaghan has written and researched several series for Australian television, including the Logie-nominated series, The Pacific in the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill, Shane Delia’s Spice Journey: Turkey and Gourmet Farmer Afloat, and also works as a researcher on other major film and television productions including the AACTA-winning Sydney Mardi Gras Parade broadcast for SBS, Adam Liaw’s Destination Flavour: China, The Water Diviner, Australia: The Story of Us, and Doctor Doctor. She also writes regularly for The Guardian, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, and The Saturday Paper on art and culture, and is the Australia/NZ correspondent for the UK-based publication, Research Professional News.

Meaghan’s first novel was an adaptation of the script for Russell Crowe’s feature, The Water Diviner, which was published by Pan Macmillan and sold over 45,000 copies in Australia and internationally. She is represented by Curtis Brown Australia, and in 2018, her novel The Honourable Thief, was published by Pan Macmillan, with the sequel, The Emerald Tablet, published in 2019. In 2018, Harper Collins also published Meaghan’s book, The Pacific: In the Footsteps of Captain Cook with Sam Neill.

Synopsis

A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill.

Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, just over 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted but not unknown. A rich diversity of people and cultures navigated, traded, lived and fought here for thousands of years. Before Cook, the Pacific was disconnected from the power and ideas of Europe, Asia and America. In the wake of Cook, everything changed.

The Pacific with Sam Neill is the companion book to the Foxtel documentary series of the same name, in which actor and raconteur Sam Neill takes a deeply personal, present-day voyage to map his own understanding of James Cook, Europe's greatest navigator, and the immense Pacific Ocean itself.

Voyaging on a wide variety on vessels, from container ships to fishing trawlers and sailing boats, Sam crosses the length and breadth of the largest ocean in the world to experience for himself a contemporary journey in Cook's footsteps, engaging the past and present in both modern and ancient cultural practice and peoples.

Fascinating, engaging, fresh and vital - this is history ... but not as you know it.

Reviews

"Perfect! Have had on repeat and love it. Definitely listen if interested in the Pacific Islands"
-Audible review

Audiobook on CD-ROM, complete with cover art on CD. Supplied in windowed CD sleeve, no case provided.

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