We can learn valuable lessons from the ‘polar bear capital of the world’

LIFE IN THE ARCTIC

Britain’s wild places are under pressure – but cycling gives us rare access to their beauty and fragility. Sophie Pavelle explores what’s at stake from the saddle

“There are too many women traveling luxuriously in ‘Darkest Africa’. Eskimos of Disco, Greenland, are publishing a newspaper,” Charles Fort wrote in New Lands. So I checked whether there were still ne

When Billy Butlin opened his titular holiday camp on the North Yorkshire coast after the Second World War, easy access to the sea was key to attracting visitors. But 80 years later, the sea could star

PHOTO: TOM BAILEY 1 It’s a win for ...

D o you remember cecil the lion, the bold, wild and archetypally handsome big cat at Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park? With a glorious flowing mane and a royal swagger, Cecil was the star attraction at