Great and Lesser Birds, Great and Lesser Deaths
by Alex Lockwood On the half hour walk between our cottage and the seabird sanctuary at the far northeast tip of the island, Luis would spontaneously stop and e...
Category: Essays
The Song of the Shetland Wren
by Sally Huband The antidote to a Shetland winter is the song of a Shetland wren. This is my fourth winter on these islands and it has been by far the worst, en...
In the Eyes of a Bear
by Julian Hoffman As the sun rose over the mountains I walked a treeless ridge that buckled into the hazy distance. A vast summer sky cradled a few threads of c...
In Search of the Mountain Ghost
by Katey Duffey Understanding a Culture to Protect an Iconic Predator Bounding along the Mongolian steppe in a Soviet Russia era van, it is clear how this vast,...
Death of a Foster Son
by Nancy Campbell The doctor called out to me as I shuffled downhill through the snow, going sideways and slowly, trying not to fall over. We’d met over a...
Meeting the Whale
by Peter Reason “We might be in for a tedious day,” I warned Suzy and Gib. “Motoring in flat calm and very little to see.” I was on the second stage of my voyag...
The Last Call
by James Roberts The first time I heard it was in the instant after I had first experienced silence. We came here a few months after our baby was born. I left h...