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Journey to Zanzibar
1985 • 5,649 words • Reportage & Criticism
The night train to the coast leaves Nairobi at six, rolling down through the high plains till it reaches Mombasa port, in the hot strip… more»
In the landscape of Eden
July 1998 • 2,597 words • Reportage & Criticism
In January I was driving through north-eastern Zaire—now the Democratic Republic of Congo—along the road from Goma, a town on the northern shore of Lake Kivu, to the headquarters of… more»
Darwin and the social order
29 September 1991 • 1,655 words • Reportage & Criticism
Of revolutionary thinkers Charles Darwin was not only one of the very greatest, but surely also the most lovable. A dunce at school, too squeamish… more»
Being on top
20 February 1986 • 3,969 words • Reportage & Criticism
What is more important: is it the project of understanding why sexual desire is, or has become, a problem for us like no other, fraught… more»
The joy of textiles
February 1996 • 1,281 words • City of Words
My forebears on my father’s father’s side were silk merchants in Macclesfield, in England. During the industrial revolution they pioneered the mechanized, factory-based process that… more»
The death of Stephen
8 June 1998 • 1,155 words • City of Words
Last week Steven Mathews died. He was thirty-six years old, a man of charm and intelligence, without pretension, without enemies, one more casualty of the… more»
Divine right and the death of kings
18 January 1998 • 1,511 words • City of Words
Three hundred and fifty years ago in Whitehall, in London, on a make-shift scaffold outside the Banqueting House—Inigo Jones’ then newly-built extension to the Royal… more»
Saving Angkor
16 January 1996 • 1,113 words • City of Words
It’s back in 1993 and I’m seeing Angkor for the first time—gazing down from the porthole of a Russian military helicopter at the huge, geometrically ordered… more»
A new acquisition for the national gallery of nature
19 October 1998 • 983 words • City of Words
I first went up Yr Wyddfa—Snowdon to the English—at the age of two,… more»
All Souls’ Day, looking backward
October 1995 • 1,056 words • City of Words
In June, on St Vitus’ Day, in this column, I aired the interesting-if-true… more»
