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...
“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....
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...