Author, Ethnographer, Mycologist
A Luddite Lexicon is a dictionary of words and phrases that speak out against thetechnological matrix currently enveloping our planet. Inside that matrix, a mobilephone is a religious object, and a television is an addictive toy. Almost everywhereyou go, automotive Continue reading
So there I was, swatting mosquitoes on Victoria Island in the CanadianArctic. I didn’t come to this relatively remote island because I wanted to engagein that vigorous activity, however. Rather, I came because I wanted to escapewhat writer Norman Douglas Continue reading
I am excited to share my latest book, available at better bookstores everywhere. “Thoreau, I think. would have wanted you to carry Outsider in your hip pocket, to be mulled over in small bites while walking.” — Bill McKibben
Hardly anything, not even an infant asleep in a stroller, raises the oxytocin of certain people to such Everest-like heights as the sight of a wide-eyed, round-headed Canis familiaris, otherwise known as a dog. Words like lovable, adorable, and cute emerge Continue reading
Once upon a time the Explorers Club was one of the most prestigious organizations on the planet. Its past members included such eminences as Richard Peary, Thor Heyerdahl, Charles Lindbergh, Peter Freuchen, Tenzing Norgay, and Sir Edmund Hillary. But the Continue reading
Thanks to the unabashed tourist meccas of Nassau and Freeport, the word “Bahamas” calls up images of mega-gambling casinos, no less mega-cruise ships, package tours, and hordes of sun-reddened figures lying on a beach. But consider the 110 square mile Continue reading
So there you are, walking along the Atlantic City Boardwalk. The crowds are oppressive, Nature seems to have disappeared, and there s nary a spouting whale in sight. You d still like a boardwalk experience, so what do you do? You go Continue reading
Things got a little out of hand at the end of the expedition... Continue reading
Fond thoughts of the author B. Traven. Who was he anyway? Continue reading
On the mycological deficits of American postage stamps, and the international anticrust problem. Continue reading