A seat is a set of trade-offs rather than a preference, and which trade-off matters changes completely between a short hop and an overnight journey. Here are ten things worth…
Every terraced landscape is an enormous piece of engineering built by hand over generations, and every element of it answers a specific problem with a slope. Here are seventeen.
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Most of the waiting on a trip is avoidable and is caused by arriving at the same moment as everybody else. Here are ten things that change how much of…
Most rock is worn away mechanically. Limestone is removed chemically, taken into solution and carried off in the water, and a landscape shaped by dissolving behaves unlike anywhere else. Here…
There is a small object that lines a great many old roads and is almost never looked at: a short stone or cast-iron post at the verge, carrying a name…
Coarse material behaves completely differently from sand under waves - it drains, it rolls, it stacks and it sorts - and almost everything distinctive about a shingle beach follows from…