The Kenyan night is like a busy shipping lane, but silent
Night falls like a fire curtain at seven and I go to bed not long afterwards, serenaded by bullfrogs after…
What Ryszard Kapuscinski airbrushed out of his bestselling book
I once found myself on a lonely road in southern Ethiopia with the famous Polish author Ryszard Kapuscinski. We were…
What Ryszard Kapuscinski airbrushed out of his bestselling book
I once found myself on a lonely road in southern Ethiopia with the famous Polish author Ryszard Kapuscinski. We were…
I know what the Piers Gaveston Society really did with pig’s heads
Memories of partying with the notorious Piers Gaveston Society at Oxford
I was petrified of the power of the Great Monition, the most terrifying curse of them all
Laikipia A lion has just mauled and partially eaten a warrior who tried to throw a spear in my…
Wild life
Laikipia A lion has just mauled and partially eaten a warrior who tried to throw a spear in my…
Africa is no longer the land of elephants
Laikipia An elephant can break through an electric fence by pulling out the posts, pushing younger, more stupid animals into…
Man’s greed and gain
Laikipia An elephant can break through an electric fence by pulling out the posts, pushing younger, more stupid animals into…
Why I dream of the Great Wall of China
Laikipia A quarter of a century ago I met two young South African men who had ridden their ponies 1,700…
Wild life
Laikipia A quarter of a century ago I met two young South African men who had ridden their ponies 1,700…
The Shrewsbury School Hunt very nearly killed me
Laikipia, Kenya Out cross-country running on the farm in Kenya recently, I came face-to-face with a gang of bull…
Wild life
Laikipia, Kenya Out cross-country running on the farm in Kenya recently, I came face-to-face with a gang of bull…
The Kenya Fly Fishers’ club makes the Bullingdon look rather left-wing
Nairobi Trout were first introduced into Kenya’s highland streams in 1905. Men like Ewart Grogan, ‘baddest and boldest of…
Wild life
Nairobi Trout were first introduced into Kenya’s highland streams in 1905. Men like Ewart Grogan, ‘baddest and boldest of…
I am grateful to my surgeon for saving one of my limbs when a mob of Samburu tribesmen attacked me
Laikipia When I was a boy in Devon we had an orchard. On a string of autumns, as the fruit…
Wild life
Laikipia When I was a boy in Devon we had an orchard. On a string of autumns, as the fruit…
The warrior arched his body, readying to sling his spear at my chest
Laikipia With a shriek, the warrior arched his body, readying to sling his spear at my chest. The tear-dropped javelin…
Wild life
Laikipia With a shriek, the warrior arched his body, readying to sling his spear at my chest. The tear-dropped javelin…
Having oozed optimism for a decade, I am a bit down about the Hopeful Continent
Juba I discovered a 1954 Morris Minor parked outside the Catholic mission station in Mopoi, South Sudan. The car had…
Wild life
Juba I discovered a 1954 Morris Minor parked outside the Catholic mission station in Mopoi, South Sudan. The car had…
I want to do for field rations what Jamie Oliver did for school dinners
Hell’s Kitchen My ambition to open a fish and chip shop in Mogadishu has not happened yet, though I remain…
Wild life
Hell’s Kitchen My ambition to open a fish and chip shop in Mogadishu has not happened yet, though I remain…
If you want a real safari, head to Botswana
As a boy camping with my father on safaris deep in the African bush, there were no tents involved; we…
I cannot imagine living in a world without lions
Laikipia We are privileged to live with lions on the farm. We hear them most nights. We encounter them frequently.…
Wild life
Laikipia We are privileged to live with lions on the farm. We hear them most nights. We encounter them frequently.…
