Meaghan Wilson Anastasios

Author of 'The Water Diviner,' now a film with Russell Crowe, and screenwriter of 'The Pacific with Sam Neill.'

Book cover showing a close-up of a man with gray hair and beard, against a map and ocean background; title reads The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook, with Sam Neill (text visible).

What I learned about the real Sam Neill while writing his TV series and book about Captain Cook, and why the world is poorer without him [Originally published on Substack: Human Matters by Meaghan.] Hearing the news that Sam Neill was gone hit me harder than I thought it might. I don’t want to talk …

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