I like people who do crazy things, and I like adventures that start in bars. Hugh Thomson and his “The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland,” cover both of these concepts quite nicely. “Hey, we heard there was …
Adventure: Sweet Sixteen
I’m not entirely sure it was sixteen degrees, but it had to be close. Old Man Winter finally arrived this week and in his wake he left a bit of the white and a weeklong kiss of low teens for …
Read: The Snow Leopard Project
Hey, what do you think about setting up a national park is postwar Afghanistan? Sure, why not? How difficult can it be? Turns out, quite difficult, but Alex Dehgan-along with a multitude of other conservationists, security folks, drivers, chefs and …
Read: Bird Brother
It takes a lot to turn a gun-totting, drug dealing protagonist into someone you want to go hang out with, but Rodney Stotts and Kate Pipkin do just this very thing in their story of “Bird Brother: A Falconer’s Journey …
Adventure: Albania Bird Redux
As many of you know, I’ve got an upcoming workshop in Albania. This will be my third trip to this fascinating country. I should mention here, mostly for my American audience, that Albania is NOT inside Russia nor is it …
Creative: AG23 Field Report, Birding Southern New Mexico
“Why are you the way you are?” “I think it’s anxiety, your entire family has it,” she said. “I’m not anxious at all,” I replied. “I am driven, and I have limited time combined with an agenda to create,” “I’m …
Creative: Albania Journal Layouts
Layouts. They are a testimony of what you have, and more importantly, what you don’t have. But even discussing “having” something places you in a specific, conflicted, tortured set of those who hunt with the camera. And I don’t mean …