Aidan Hartley

Aiden Hartley is the Spectator's Wild Life columnist.

Wild life

19 September 2013 1:00 pm

It was towards dusk by the time we had given the tourist police the slip and started climbing the pyramid…

Killing in Kenya: Aidan Hartley tracks the last steps of an elephant

24 August 2013 9:00 am

  Laikipia The bull elephant had roamed our northern marches of the Laikipia plateau for decades. I always recognised him…

Wild life

22 August 2013 1:00 pm

  Laikipia The bull elephant had roamed our northern marches of the Laikipia plateau for decades. I always recognised him…

The Ghosts of Happy Valley, by Juliet Barnes - review

3 August 2013 9:00 am

Rift Valley, Kenya The other day when I told the headmaster of a top British public school that I came…

A Somali shepherd in Kenya

A binge on alcohol and meat, plus hired sex and lodging — all for £1.50

27 July 2013 9:00 am

 Kenya Home is beyond the perimeter of modern Kenya and way off the grid. When the ancient generator goes off…

A Somali shepherd in Kenya

Wild life

25 July 2013 1:00 pm

 Kenya Home is beyond the perimeter of modern Kenya and way off the grid. When the ancient generator goes off…

Wild life

13 June 2013 1:00 pm

Il Pinguaan Springs When I first saw the Pinguaan Springs they were small, fetid bogs set about with papyrus, the…

Wild life

16 May 2013 1:00 pm

A leopard has been on the rampage night after night. We know her because she often lurks in the woods…

Wild life

18 April 2013 1:00 pm

Colobus monkeys in the forest were throat singing like Tibetan monks. Mist rose from the Kericho tea gardens above us…

Wild life

21 March 2013 2:00 pm

Rift Valley ‘We’re on the frontline,’ I said. ‘And however many guns we had, it wouldn’t be enough against the…

Wild life

21 February 2013 2:00 pm

Rift Valley I am training for a half-marathon on the slopes of Mount Kenya in June and I must prepare…

Wild life

24 January 2013 2:00 pm

Rift Valley ‘I’ve got a brilliant idea,’ said Jools on the phone, his voice characteristically rising like a commentator on…

Wild life

13 December 2012 2:00 am

Gilgil, Kenya Pembroke House, our children’s school, is a little slice of England set in Kenya’s Rift Valley. In the…

Wild life

15 November 2012 2:00 pm

Northern Kenya If I go out in darkness I dread neither the leopard nor the lion but I recoil from…

Wild life

18 October 2012 2:00 pm

Mogadishu I return to Mogadishu to find it’s calm – only a few assassinations, hit-and-run attacks, IEDs or suicide bombs…

Wild life

19 September 2012 7:00 pm

He was under a tiny patch of shade under a tree in one of the earth’s remotest spots. At Nadapal,…

Wild life

25 August 2012 4:00 pm

Kigali Eighteen years after Rwanda’s bloodbath I disembarked from my flight and was surprised to see that mortar craters no…

Wild life

28 July 2012 4:00 pm

Kenya coast A loud crash woke us in the middle of our first night at the beach house. ‘Robbers must…

Wild life

30 June 2012 4:00 pm

Laikipia My new pride and joy is a pedigree Boran bull named Woragus 317. We know him as Ollie. Sired…

Wild life

26 May 2012 10:00 am

Juba After an all-night rainstorm in Juba I woke to see the mosquito that bit me in the dark. Now,…

Wild life

28 April 2012 10:00 am

Laikipia, Kenya Darkness was closing in and one of the sheep was lost. A search party formed. On my Kenya…

Wild life

31 March 2012 11:00 am

I looked at the bomb craters and their shrapnel blast patterns. Dozens of metres away, rocks and tree trunks were…

Wild life

25 February 2012 11:00 am

Kenya  At Nairobi’s Muthaiga Club this week I bumped into Stanley Johnson, author of the superb memoir Stanley, I Presume…

Wild life

28 January 2012 11:00 am

Wau, South Sudan ‘Let’s visit the brewery,’ said Ken when we reached Wau. We were dusty and parched. It was…

Wild life

3 December 2011 11:00 am

Kenya In protest against the lack of law and order in my farming district I have decided to dye my…