It snakes for 150 miles along Australia’s southern coast, a black serpent of asphalt humming a symphony of surf and rock. At times, the highway skirts the edges of cliffs hundreds of feet in the air, only to...
On a cold September evening in 1936, Frank Darby locked a door at the Hobart Zoo and closed the coffin on a species. That night, while Darby was presumably home in bed, the last known Tasmanian tiger died...
On the banks of the Tiber, just a few hundred yards from the the Vatican’s front door, you’ll find a guitar player. At least, that’s where I found him. He’ll...
The final day broke over Vietnam. On a creaking, wooden ship in a secluded cove of the South China Sea, the old crow and I greeted the morning sun. It’s...
For more than 100 years, the two-story, brick building on a corner in downtown Memphis has been a fixture of the city’s landscape. Built in the late 1800s on the...
“There are vampires. They are real, they are of our time, and they are here, close by, stalking us as we sleep…”- Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897. The forest stirred to...
VANUA LEVU, Fiji — 88 pounds of kava hit the rainforest floor with a thud. The mesh sack brimming with green roots landed on top of another, and then another....