Category Archives: Nature
GOLD AND GUNS IN EDEN Part 3 of 4
A Memoir from Western New Guinea I flew to the Highlands on a creaking Merpati aircraft with only one other passenger and other seats replaced by large steel drums. I would have been more nervous if I had known we … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Nature
Tagged Baliem Valley, El Nino, Gardens of War, HIV-AIDS, Wamena, West Papua
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GOLD AND GUNS IN EDEN Part 2 of 4
A Memoir from Western New Guinea I learned about Papua from BBC TV as child in gray suburban London and fantasied about exploring the bush for exotic wildlife and Stone Age tribes. In time, I became a biologist, but my … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Nature
Tagged Alfred Russel Wallace, Harvard-Peabody Expedition, Malay Archipelago, Mamberamo River, Merdeka, Michael Rockefeller, Morning Star Flag, West Papua
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GOLD AND GUNS IN EDEN Part 1 of 4
For a month’s respite from new blogs I am posting a memoir dissected into four A Memoir from Western New Guinea (some names have been changed) There was a message waiting in my office from an unidentified caller. Jacob was … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Nature
Tagged Chief Eulay, Elsham, Grasberg Mine, Indonesia, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, West Papua
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Celebrating the Dirt Road
Dirt roads are the borderland between flourishing nature and the black sterility of asphalt roads. Gravel roads are dirt roads after they have been improved with crushed stone to make them more resilient to wear and weather. Dirt roads of … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, garden, Nature
Tagged crushed stone, dirt roads, gravel roads, Lani tribe, Mohican hair-cut, West Papua
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Yellowstone Opens the Doors of Perception
While I was sauntering through woods I mused how quickly the intensity of first impressions fade to extinction. How the frisson of a new place or a face we want to sustain with its original freshness never burns so brightly … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Nature
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Arrowleaf balsamroot, bear spray, Grizzly bear, T.S. Eliot The Wasteland, William Blake, Yellowstone National Park
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 