In 1841, a young Scotsman called Henry Yule was exploring the Khasi Hills of north-east India when he came upon something no other European had ever reported. There, in that challenging landscape of ...
A tree that has graced a neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya, for nearly a century is slated to be taken down to make way for a highway through the city intended to reduce traffic jams. By Abdi Latif Dahir ...
In his 1971 introduction to the re-printing of the 1934 book, New York University English Professor Walter James Miller observed, “Fig Tree John is not only one of our greatest novels about the ...