Tall tales and other thoughts from storyteller, sailor and nomad Dennison Berwick. "Kuan Yin" is his 32-foot go-anywhere home.
Posted in Reportage/Stories, Sailing on Mar 5th, 2010
I wrote recently about the amazing amount of our plastics now floating about in the oceans. A new story by Victoria Gill of the BBC highlights the situation in the North Atlantic where researchers have found a massive garbage zone. The maximum density of plastic trash was 200,000 pieces per square kilometre!
The tiny pieces are [...]
Posted in Books/Language, Reportage/Stories on Feb 17th, 2010
Canadian author and naturalist Farley Mowat has come in for heavy criticism in recent years for falsifying and hugely embellishing parts of his books. For example, when Mowat said he had spent two summers and a winter studying wolves, the Toronto Star, a newspaper in Toronto, Canada, wrote that Mowat had only spent 90 hours [...]
Posted in Books/Language, Reportage/Stories on Feb 3rd, 2010
Those who argue that economic exploitation of natural “resources” can go on for ever because it always has gone on, should read Mark Kurlansky’s book “Cod, A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World”. The book is not primarily about the collapse of stocks in the early 1990s but rather a fascinating investigation of [...]
Posted in Reportage/Stories on Jan 16th, 2010
An amusing reminder of what we’re doing to the planet – and what can happen to your lungs:
"Serendipity" is the art of finding something valuable or delightful when you're not looking for it. It's how you might also define living life as an adventure - which is something I seek to do everyday - and accepting whatever happens.
