Articles

Seeing the world through Neanderthal eyes in William Golding’s ‘The Inheritors’. Published in Slightly Foxed.

Tree planting in Senegal’s Sahel region marks the start of Africa’s Great Green Wall. For BBC Radio 4: From Our Own Correspondent.

The sociable solitude of Lundy, and the recovery of the island’s seabird population. Published in Guardian Travel.

A journey into deep time on the shifting sand dunes of Lithuania’s Curonian Spit. Published in Emergence.

On the shores of Dugi Otok, one of Croatia’s least visited islands. Published in Guardian Travel.

On the profound dislocation of flying home after a months-long walk. Published in Noema.

The 2012 Mayan calendar ‘prophecy’ and misunderstandings of appocalypse. Published in Perspective.

A funeral for a dead glacier in Switzerland; living rivers in England, New Zealand and Quebec. Published by Alexander.

An appreciation of London’s rose-ringed parakeets. Published in The Simple Things.

Autumn is not a time of death, just the birth of a different life. Adventures among fungus-foragers. Published in Perspective.

A non-travel piece about the intangible border of the Kogis’ sacred mountains in northern Colombia. Published in Aeon.

The ill-tempered winds of the Mediterranean. Published in The Passenger.

An unearthly sparkle in the woods leads into a world of colour foraging and the politics of pigment. Published in Perspective.

My initiation into the endangered arts of bell-founding and metal-casting. Published in Perspective.

How travel writing and fiction merged to produce Red Smoking Mirror. Published in The Irish Times.

A jewel of the Islamic Golden Age, modern Córdoba has a legacy of cultural collisions. Published in Perspective.

Red Smoking Mirror, and how alternate history helps us imagine alternate futures. Published in Dark Mountain.

Is walking on the melting Aletsch Glacier a kind of ‘last-chance tourism’? Published in Guardian Travel.