More specifically concerning: exploration
7.06.02 – Friday
7 June 2002, around 13.42.
In a case like this, it would have been a godsend, I thought, had either of the three gentlemen, Captains Burton, Speke, or Grant, given some information on these points; had they devoted a chapter upon, ‘How to get ready an Expedition for Central Africa.’ The purpose of this chapter, then, is to relate how […]
desertification
3 May 2012, around 19.51.
‘ a bitterly cold wind which drove the dust and tiny pebbles against our faces like a continual storm of hail’
bunkum
22 June 2025, around 10.30.
The fundamental error is that of placing Perfection in humanity, thus giving rise to that bastard thing Personality, and all the bunkum that follows from it. —T.E. Hulme (Speculations, p. 33) Novaya Zemlya—we eventually made it that far. Not beyond the point that should have opened onto the passage to Cathay—not that bunkum, the arena […]