Articles
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A Darkening Terrain
How fiction can navigate loss, drawing on themes from ‘Loss Soup and Other Stories’. Published in Resurgence & Ecologist.
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Peace and Fire
Tracing a 20th-century front line through landscapes newly scarred by 21st-century wildfires. Published in Dark Mountain.
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Walking, War and Wildfires
Wildfires reveal the buried violence of Europe’s past on Slovenia’s Walk of Peace. For BBC Radio 4: From Our Own Correspondent.
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Red Beer in Lviv
A chaotic journey through Romania, Ukraine and Poland to the Tatra Mountains. Published in Intrepid Times.
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Bulls and Scars
On having my preconceptions destroyed in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley. Published in Dark Mountain and The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century.
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Across Europe Ten Years On
A reflection on what has changed since my walk to Istanbul. For BBC Radio 4: From Our Own Correspondent.
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Vertical Imperialism
Review of ‘The Hunt for Mount Everest’ by Craig Storti. Published in Literary Review.
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Wild East, Wild West
Adventures with make-believe cowboys in Spain and nostalgic nomads on Hungary’s steppes. Published in Ernest.
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Tearing Cables from the Earth
One Romanian peasant farmer against fracking in Transylvania. Published in Dark Mountain.
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Return of the Foreigners
Seeking the Forest of Dean’s wild boar on the boundary between civilisation and myth. Published in Emergence.
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‘There are no evil people on mountains’
On being rescued on a Croatian mountain by one man and his homemade wine. Published in Guardian Travel.
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Genius Loci
Climbing over the ‘mindwall’ to review ‘The Book of Trespass’ by Nick Hayes. Published in Dark Mountain.
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Milk of Deer
The Arctic reindeer-herding legacy that links Scandinavia to Scotland. Published in Ernest.
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How to Walk Across Europe
An audio field guide to walking 2,500 miles. Published in Dark Mountain.
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Dead Wood
A journey into life and death in Białowieża, Europe’s largest surviving remnant of primeval forest. Published in Emergence.
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Burying a Robin
On shifting normality and unexpected grief in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Published in Dark Mountain.
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Viking Legends of the Lea
A meander down London’s River Lea, once the border between the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings. Published in Waterfront.
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A Bell for Lost Species
The forging of the extinction bell for Remembrance Day for Lost Species. Published in Dark Mountain.