As Others See Us...and History
In “To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church”, one of Robert Burns’ most amusing yet profound poems, written in 1786, the...
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Eric Boa
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A Reckless Guide to Reckless Travel
We live in an age of golden travel. Never has it been so easy to go so far and wide. Yet moving around also has limitations, bounded by...
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Eric Boa
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Is Planting Native Trees Preferable?
I first came across Fraxinus uhdei in Colombia in 1998. It’s a species of ash tree from Mexico, known in Colombia as urapán...
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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A Pattern of Islands – Britain’s Shame
I had an evening alone the other day while my youngest two were living it up in Nairobi while my wife was searching for them...
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Richard Pooley
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The Value of Standing and Staring - a Japanese Life Lesson
At the end of his article on the French presidential election in the last issue David Lee quoted the well-known opening couplet of a poem...
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