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Walking FishPeruvian Amazon

This is the real Amazon jungle, where pink freshwater dolphins bring unplanned pregnancies, the night speckled with the red eyes…

Attempt to Establish a DistanceSardinia

When I was a child, on feast days I would wake up to the bittersweet smell of lamb being prepared…

Maps are a Battlefield

I’m in my hotel room in Nairobi. It’s late morning, and a few hours ago the animals that populate the…

Immortal Food in the Greek IslandsNorthern Cyclade

Millennia have passed since the ancient Greeks savoured the Mediterranean diet in the Cyclades, living off their semi-wild flocks of…

Didn’t Cross the Desert to End Up in a Square

Porta Venezia, which in reality led more towards Austria rather than Venice, is one of Milan’s defensive gates from the…

The Origins of Music

Dr Victor Grauer, based in Pittsburgh, PA, is a composer, musicologist, film‑maker, media artist, poet and dramatist. He was co-creator,…

Journeys on Paper

How many miles do we have to travel to call a simple displacement of our bodies a “journey”? Maybe we’re…

Dream Maps

“Then there are dream maps…,” began the Cartographer as we sailed by the long, white beach of an island off…

Antiparos VeicolosNorthern Cyclade

As I rested in the shade of some fronds on the most secret beach of Antiparos, Cyclades, Greece, it came…