Wild life
Wild life
Laikipia, Kenya Darkness was closing in and one of the sheep was lost. A search party formed. On my Kenya…
Wild life
I looked at the bomb craters and their shrapnel blast patterns. Dozens of metres away, rocks and tree trunks were…
Wild life
Kenya At Nairobi’s Muthaiga Club this week I bumped into Stanley Johnson, author of the superb memoir Stanley, I Presume…
Wild life
Wau, South Sudan ‘Let’s visit the brewery,’ said Ken when we reached Wau. We were dusty and parched. It was…
Wild life
Kenya In protest against the lack of law and order in my farming district I have decided to dye my…
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Kenya I am proud of Kenya for taking on Muslim extremists in southern Somalia. Rather wisely, the Kenyan military has…
Wild life
Aidan Hartley’s Wild Life Israel Jerusalem was once a very sad place for me and I feared returning. I was…
Wild Life
Aidan Hartley’s Wild Life Nairobi My friend Philip Coulson was shot at midnight while driving home after the theatre in…
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Indian Ocean On Hassan’s dhow, shaped like Vasco da Gama’s caravel, I can forget about dry land for a fortnight…
Wild life
‘So much sorting to do,’ said my Aunt Beryl. We stood in the middle of her home in Sussex. I…
Wild life
Aidan Hartley’s Wild life Laikipia I had enjoyed a boozy lunch and afternoon in the Men’s Bar of the Muthaiga.…
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Kenya Marriage can be hard for all of us. A friend of mine, we’ll call him Charles, works far away…
Wild life
Weregoi Plains Three shots rang out in the night air. Rustlers had attacked my neighbour’s boma a few hundred metres…
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Indonesia In a Jakarta traffic jam it hits me. After decades of frenetic travel, I have learnt less of the…
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Democratic Republic of Congo It is impossible to predict how a person will behave in a tight spot. I have…
Wild life
Juba In the run-up to this week’s referendum on Southern Sudan’s future, I flew to Juba with a bottle of…
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Laikipia A Christmas gift of perfume smelling of chocolate caused my wife Claire to burst into tears. ‘I have never…
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Laikipia I have a mob of finished Boran steers ready for the holidays. The butchers are suddenly chasing me and…
Wild life
Bangkok ‘Any Thai man who is not married is gay,’ said a Thai woman to me. ‘You could say that…
Wild life
Rift Valley The patriarch Jacob Mukhamia Omanyo, grandfather of my friend Celestina, was born in 1888 in western Kenya. For…
Last season
Kenya Our surfing gang — average age 50 — are out in the bay again, dodging sewage, bull sharks and…
Friendly fire
Laikipia, Kenya My cousin Charlie Williams is a young Irish Guards captain about to deploy in Afghanistan. The other day…
Battle lines
South Africa Rarely is Jonathan Clayton, the Times man in Africa, far from the front lines — but this month…
Let’s do business
Tanzania Here’s this Chinese guy in the midday sun. Straw hat, faggy in his mouth, bright eyes, tanned face. I…
White-knuckle ride
Rainy Season on the Cattle Stock Route From the side of the track, a Samburu youth waved me down. I…
