"If you dug a hole all the way to the other side of the earth, where would you be? What animals would you see?"--

A group of people sit around a table theorising, categorising and telling stories. Their real purpose is never quite clear, but they continue on, searching for

Heying, a bioligist specailizing in reptiles and amphibians, writes about her three seasons spent in Madagascar.

This is a study of the phenomenology of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. The author's research is base

This book is a new history of an ancient geography. It reassesses the evidence for why Europeans believed a massive southern continent existed, and why they adv