Derek Pugh OAM, an educator and award-winning author, writes in several genres: history, science, travel, and YA fiction. Most well-known is a series on Northern Territory settlement, Tambora, Tammy Damulkurra, and Schoolies. He lives in Darwin and has had a career in primary and secondary education in large urban schools, tiny remote homeland schools, and several international schools. He currently is writing the further history of the Northern Territory’s Top End settlements and is promoting the forthcoming sesquicentenary of the Overland Telegraph Line (2022) and the bicentenary of Top End settlement (2024).