Bungee jumpers have the brave men of Pentecost Island in Vanuatu to thank for popularising this death-defying activity. Don’t…
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The prehistoric fagus – Australia’s only temperate native deciduous tree – bursts into a flame of autumnal colour as winter…
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Dinner is a lavish, all-night affair in Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park. The elephants’ tummies are rumbling. They’re gurgling…
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Residents of Bhutan’s most beautiful valley exemplify the country’s quest for happiness. The valleys of Bhutan stretch open in gaping…
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Catherine Marshall is awestruck as Japan’s famed cherry trees burst into blossom. Everywhere you look, there are cherry blossoms:…
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Annie Dillard’s classic nature memoir, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, takes us deep into the wilds of Virginia – and our…
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The raindrops fall fat and heavy as Catherine Marshall weathers the first storm of the season in a bamboo-woven cheroot house…
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Ghana’s founding father is buried on the polo field where he once declared independence from Britain. It’s appropriate that…
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The world’s first climate change refugees came from the Torres Strait Islands, and have much to teach the world today…
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Can you sum up the world in seven Christmas gifts? Catherine Marshall gives it a shot. One of the…