Articles
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Winds of Awe and Fear
Exploring the mythology of Europe’s pre-Christian wind gods that still influence us today. Published in Emergence.
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The Great Green Expansion
Jimi Hendrix? Climate change? How ring-necked parakeets took over London. Published in The Guardian.
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Heaven’s Breath
An introduction to Lyall Watson’s ‘Heaven’s Breath’. Published by New York Review of Books.
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Beneath the surface: Tuscany’s ancient walking trails
Walking the Vie Cave in Italy, carved by the ancient Etruscans. Published in Guardian Travel.
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Unexpected Avons
Tracking the Celtic sources of Britain’s most commonly named river. Published in Waterfront.
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The Wind that Brought the Moors to Spain
A natural history of the Levanter wind that blows between Spain and Morocco. Published in Corriere della Sera.
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Learning Winter
On adapting to life as a stranger in the Lake District. Published in Caught By the River.
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In the Clearing
Reflections on a week in a pre-collapse geodesic dome. Published in Dark Mountain.
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Unconquerable Man
Reflections on the 60-year anniversary of the ‘conquest’ of Everest. Culturally, is it time to start coming down the mountain?
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Chasing London’s Cloud of Feral Parakeets
Following the flyways of the city’s bright green avian invaders. Published in Narratively.
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Everest: from mythical peak to the world’s highest garbage dump
The myth of Everest, and my family connection to the world’s highest mountain. Published in The Guardian.
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Hungary’s Cultural Purge Gathers Pace
The worrying rise of ‘illiberal democracy’ in the heart of Europe. Published in New Internationalist.
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Dubai’s Labour Trap
Investigating the plight of South Asian migrant workers in the UAE in the economic slump. Published in Political Insight.
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Searching for Reality in Dubai
Surviving six nightmarish weeks in the world’s most hyperbolic city.
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Ethiopia’s Endangered Democracy
How dissent is being crushed in the West’s key Horn of Africa ally. Published in New Internationalist.
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In the Lap of the Gods
A three-day pilgrimage in Kashmir to the sacred Shiva-lingam of Amarnath. Published in Guardian Travel.
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Melting Mountains
The devastating impacts of glacier collapse on the Valley of Kashmir.
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Promised Lands
As Rastafarians seek a spiritual return Ethiopia, Ethiopia’s ancient Jewish population flees to Israel. A portrait of two exiles.