Africa
World Wildlife Hunt
It takes $6,000 to shoot a leopard in Botswana. And if you cough up $1,200, you can shoot a crocodile. Short on cash? There's always baboons, which go for $200 a pop
April 24, 2012 |
By Alastair Bland
A Short Talk With a Legend of Rock
"Climbing without risk isn't climbing," says Yvon Chouinard, American rock climbing pioneer and founder of Patagonia
April 03, 2012 |
By Alastair Bland
More Brews and Booze from Around the Globe
Stick to the road, ignore everyone and beware of liquid that looks like water—because it's probably chacha, and in the Republic of Georgia, locals will make you drink it
March 30, 2012 |
By Alastair Bland
The Greatest Diving Sites in the World
The vertiginous void of the Great Blue Hole offers divers the feeling of facing off with the edge of the world
March 28, 2012 |
By Alastair Bland
Holiday Gift Ideas for the Adventure Traveler
A chess set, soccer ball, bear spray and other items, even dog food, make the list of gifts to give your favorite hardened traveler
December 16, 2011 |
By Alastair Bland
Henry Morton Stanley's Unbreakable Will
The explorer of Dr. Livingstone-fame provides a classic character study of how willpower works
December 2011 |
By Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney
Women and the Way of the Pedal-empowered
Susan B. Anthony said bicycling "has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel"
November 29, 2011 |
By Alastair Bland
For Wildebeests, Danger Ahead
Africa's wildebeest migration pits a million thundering animals against a gantlet of perils, even—some experts fear—climate change
May 2010 |
By Robert M. Poole
Ancient Pyramids Around the World
No matter if the civilization was Mesopotamian, Egyptian, or Mayan, its legacy today is in part marked by towering pyramids
November 20, 2009 |
By Amanda Bensen
Evolution in the Deepest River in the World
New species are born in the turbulence of the Congo River
November 03, 2009 |
By Kyle Dickman
Recording the Ju/'hoansi for Posterity
For 50 years, John Marshall documented one of Africa's last remaining hunter- gatherer tribes in more than 700 hours of film footage
November 2009 |
By Amanda Bensen
Looting Mali's History
As demand for its antiquities soars, the West African country is losing its most prized artifacts to illegal sellers and smugglers
November 2009 |
By Joshua Hammer
Across Africa, Finding Common Ground in Their Art
António Ole and Aimé Mpane came together to converse through artwork in a new insallation at the National Museum of African Art
June 23, 2009 |
By Joseph Caputo
Day 1: Seeing Kenya from the Sky
Despite many travel delays, Smithsonian Secretary Clough arrives in Kenya ready to study the African wildlife at the Mpala Ranch
June 16, 2009 |
By G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Naming a New Species
Smithsonian naturalist Brian Schmidt gave a new species of African bird an interesting scientific name
March 2009 |
By Joseph Caputo
Africa on the Fly
Dangling from a paraglider with a propeller on his back, photographer George Steinmetz gets a new perspective on Africa
January 2009 |
By Abigail Tucker
The Pygmies' Plight
A correspondent who chronicled their lives in central African rain forests returns a decade later and is shocked by what he finds
December 2008 |
By Paul Raffaele
The Great Human Migration
Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world
July 2008 |
By Guy Gugliotta
Rare Breed
Can Laurie Marker help the world's fastest mammal outrun its fate?
March 2008 |
By Guy Gugliotta
Join the Migration in the Serengeti
Hordes of wildlife travel 300 miles across the “land of endless space” in the largest migration on Earth
January 2008 |
By Lyn Garrity
