Again I fly to Jordan, only this time I thrust deep into Syria: after climbing the battlements of Kraq des Chevaliers (“the most beautiful castle in the world,” according to TE Lawrence), I speed down the Mediterranean coast in a thunderstorm, and cross the Lebanese mountains in the mist to enter the Beqaa Valley, where […]
In the middle of my university studies I escape to the Caribbean to explore the legends of Hispaniola, a favourite haunt of pirates in Stevenson’s Treasure Island. It feels good to feel the sand between my toes again, and I research the history of Christopher Columbus, Spanish gold, and Ponce de Leon’s search for the
My first wild geography lesson begins in London when I am eight years old: I sail with my family across the Atlantic in a freighter captained by my father; like Jason and the Argonauts we navigate our way up the St. Lawrence River to Lake Superior, and then battle our way back home in a