OLD FUSS & FEATHERS

W e’re parked up in our Land Cruiser on the golden grasslands of Botswana’s Mababe Depression, surrounded by Cape buffaloes caked in mud. “There must be 3,000 of them here,” our guide Jonah Seboko say

ENGINEERING THE END OF MEDIEVAL WARFARE

AL MUTHANNA GOVERNORATE, IRAQ 27-28 FEBRUARY 1991

I magine you’re in Nebraska, standing on North America’s Great Plains, where the broad Platte and Missouri rivers join on their way to the mighty Mississippi. It’s 1804, and in the blistering 36°C hea

The vast, open spaces of Canada’s British Columbia can make you feel very small, but very much alive, discovers Rosie Paterson