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A season in ‘Hell’

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Review of Jonathan C Slaght’s compelling Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl. — For Geographical

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Allen Lane, Americans, China, conservation, fieldwork, forests, Geographical, Japan, Jonathan C Slaght, memoir, non-fiction, North Korea, owls, Russia, the Soviet Union, tigers, urine, winter | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, June 22, 2020

. The veddahs, or wild hunters, of Ceylon mingle the pounded fibres of soft and decayed wood with the honey on which they feed when meat is not to be obtained. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Monday, January 21 1907 . Samuel John Taylor Coleridge is the first descendant in more than two centuries to be […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged cartography, Ceylon, drink, family, food, hair, honey, hotels, humour, Laurie Lee, libel, London Zoo, Maradana, monarchy, Native Americans, Nelson Evening Mail, news, Oxford, parsnips, Richard Branson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, satire, the Welsh, veddahs, Washington Redskins | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, May 18, 2020

. In the United States only one about one building in three thousand is even nominally fire-proof. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Thursday, March 14 1907 . Ellis Paz has become the first man in history to be awarded a doctorate by the University of Oxford while wearing just his pants. Matthew Perry once entered a Vanilla Ice lookalike […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged Air India, air travel, America, biography, birds, BMX, books, construction, Covid-19, Edinburgh, Ellis Paz, Emma Bunton, emojis, fire, health, homosexuality, Matthew Perry, Mussolini, nature, Nelson Evening Mail, Nigeria, Oxford, Oxford University, Parsees, Pashto, Poetry, satire, Tamil, trypophobia, underwear, Vanilla Ice | Comments (0)

‘Bad in life, good in the book’

Thursday, September 12, 2019

A Q&A with writer and artist Dan Richards. — For Geographical

Filed in interview, Journalism | Also tagged Alice Oswald, Amazon, art, Bath, Bob Dylan, climbing, Dan Richards, David Bowie, Denis Johnson, Geographical, Horatio Clare, Iceland, JA Baker, Jan Morris, Joan Didion, Max Porter, mountains, North Korea, Norway, Outward Bound, post, Rebecca Solnit, Richard Brautigan, Royal Geographical Society, Spetses, Svalbard, sæluhús, Ted Hughes, Tim Severin, TS Eliot, writing | Comments (0)