Articles

Adventures with make-believe cowboys in Spain and nostalgic nomads on Hungary’s steppes. Published in Ernest.

One Romanian peasant farmer against fracking in Transylvania. Published in Dark Mountain.

Seeking the Forest of Dean’s wild boar on the boundary between civilisation and myth. Published in Emergence.

On being rescued on a Croatian mountain by one man and his homemade wine. Published in Guardian Travel.

Climbing over the ‘mindwall’ to review ‘The Book of Trespass’ by Nick Hayes. Published in Dark Mountain.

The Arctic reindeer-herding legacy that links Scandinavia to Scotland. Published in Ernest.

An audio field guide to walking 2,500 miles. Published in Dark Mountain.

A journey into life and death in Białowieża, Europe’s largest surviving remnant of primeval forest. Published in Emergence.

On shifting normality and unexpected grief in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Published in Dark Mountain.

A meander down London’s River Lea, once the border between the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings. Published in Waterfront.

The forging of the extinction bell for Remembrance Day for Lost Species. Published in Dark Mountain.

Exploring the mythology of Europe’s pre-Christian wind gods that still influence us today. Published in Emergence.

Jimi Hendrix? Climate change? How ring-necked parakeets took over London. Published in The Guardian.

An introduction to Lyall Watson’s ‘Heaven’s Breath’. Published by New York Review of Books.

Walking the Vie Cave in Italy, carved by the ancient Etruscans. Published in Guardian Travel.

Tracking the Celtic sources of Britain’s most commonly named river. Published in Waterfront.

A natural history of the Levanter wind that blows between Spain and Morocco. Published in Corriere della Sera.

On adapting to life as a stranger in the Lake District. Published in Caught By the River.