Wild life

White-knuckle ride

15 May 2010 10:00 am

Rainy Season on the Cattle Stock Route From the side of the track, a Samburu youth waved me down. I…

Let’s have an adventure

17 April 2010 10:00 am

Colombian jungle The first day I was in Bogota I saw a big yellow bus speeding by, full of old-aged…

Shooting the breeze

27 March 2010 11:00 am

Malindi, Kenya I’m at Malindi’s Driftwood beach bar, nursing a Tusker beer. I’m gazing at the Indian Ocean. The day…

Entrance exam

27 February 2010 11:00 am

Before disembarking at Bulawayo airport I stuffed the book I was reading in the front-seat pocket. It was Peter Godwin’s…

Plague of pachyderms

30 January 2010 11:00 am

Laikipia ‘That elephant is almost human,’ my wife Claire said. ‘That,’ I replied, ‘is the problem.’ I called him Stomper.…

In the line of fire

19 December 2009 11:00 am

Laikipia ‘Let us go in amongst the cattle and talk,’ said the Councillor Jeremiah. That means a serious matter is…

Bankrupted by paradise

28 November 2009 11:00 am

Kiwayu Island, Kenya I came on a holiday to unwind and decompress but I have just been handed the bill…

Wild Life

24 October 2009 11:00 am

Kuala Lumpur I dropped into Malaysia armed with F. Spencer Chapman’s anti-Japanese guerrilla war memoir The Jungle is Neutral and…

Wild Life

26 September 2009 10:00 am

Kenya An image I will never forget is of Ben Freeth’s three little children on the front lawn of their…

Wild Life

22 August 2009 10:00 am

Indian Ocean As a child I wandered Kenya’s north shore beaches. On coral reefs I hunted rare cowries. The Bajunis…

Wild Life

25 July 2009 10:00 am

Indian Ocean Coast I am woken at dawn by bastardised Australian and Swahili. ‘Wakey wakey hands off snakey,’ says Abo.…

Wild Life

27 June 2009 10:00 am

Kenya While staying recently on a lonely farm in the Highveld east of Johannesburg, I met a grey parrot that…

Wild Life

30 May 2009 10:00 am

Zimbabwe ‘Ah, and no cake to offer you!’ Mrs H— said. ‘I would have baked one if only I’d known…

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18 April 2009 10:00 am

Laikipia As our farm manager Celestino Sikuku drove home with two other workers last month a gang of bandits waylaid…

Wild Life

21 March 2009 11:00 am

‘Where’s Ajay?’ My producer Ed and I are making a film about India’s coalfields. ‘Ajay is busy.’ I complain, ‘But…

Wild Life

21 February 2009 11:00 am

36,000 feet Hello Link When I was a teenager on a flight to Nairobi I sat next to a pretty…

Wild Life

24 January 2009 11:00 am

Port-au-Prince Haiti seems almost beautiful from the air. Hillsides eroding into the Caribbean like a rained-on sandcastle. Up close I…