Concrete Coastline
Nick Hunt
10th August, 2012
‘You will see it further south,’ said Vassil, the archaeologist who was letting me sleep...
Journeys
Radiance by Kate Williamson
Dark Mountain began as an exhortation to leave the comfortable citadels and find the small paths that lead into the unknown, beyond the horizon of the world as we have known it.
This section is a home for writing about journeys in their many forms, the inner no less than the outer.
The Reality of Being Here
Nick Hunt
15th June, 2012
The second story was even more fantastic. Before there were mountains here – before there...
Walking… Philosophy… Waking: A Reverie
Andrew Taggart
6th June, 2012
I was reading Rousseau’s wanderings when I fell into a reverie. I heard her whisper,...
Wilder Country
Nick Hunt
12th May, 2012
A deep consciousness of this wildness exists in many of the Romanians I’ve met. They...
The Persenbeug Prediction
Nick Hunt
9th March, 2012
The sound it made was extraordinary. I had to keep stopping to listen. The...
In This Winter
Nick Hunt
24th February, 2012
The Alps, I knew, lay somewhere to my right, but for the past three days...
In Patagonia: Part 2
Paul Kingsnorth
26th January, 2012
I’m currently reading Gary Snyder’s book of essays The Practice of the Wild. Snyder is...
Tenuous, traceable threads
Nick Hunt
2nd January, 2012
My perceptions of distance have altered quickly. In a car, or even on a bike,...
In Patagonia: Part 1
Paul Kingsnorth
17th December, 2011
As I mentioned a few posts back, I have been out of the country for...
Deep Waters: Lines of Defence (1): The Thin Brown Line
Benjamin Morris
7th September, 2010
Our journey nearly didn’t happen. The day before, at a conference in New Orleans organised...