Without wanting to start off on a maudlin note, there are a few things that most people want to do at least once before they die. Getting married and having children sit fairly close to the top of the so-called ‘bucket’ lists, but after ...Read More

f you study an 18th-century map of Africa, you will note that the northern half of the continent was charted in great detail. Every dune in the Sahara, every dried-up stream in what’s now Sudan, every goat trail in the vast heat of Egypt: ...Read More