Mud, leeches, eating your own dog: the ghastly truth about travel writing

There Allen is reunited with a dear friend of his youthful initiation-rite days. Explorer, he says, is actually, “a book about friendship – the value of disconnecting…

What the world’s last happily isolated tribe can teach us about ignoring the rest of the globe

Not so long ago, I went to track down an old friend – a friend who lived in the forbidding Central Range of Papua New Guinea, tucked…