In association with Brad Sells BradSells.com In search of exotic woods, world-class sculptor Brad Sells meets botanists, Boer farmers, scientists and Zulu shamans while learning the medicinal power of trees. From the African bush to the bright lights of a top Chicago...
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In the dark predawn, Phra Acharn sat in the lotus position, deep in prayer. A wrist-thick candle lit the faces of the venerable abbot and the temple's massive, golden Buddha equally, like flickering reflections of the same face - apt symbolism for an aging abbot....
In the elevator lobby of Tokyo's Daizen Tuna Company is a framed black-and-white poster, dated 1920. In the foreground is a procession of men celebrating the Uogashi Water God Festival. Directly behind them is an enormous tuna fish, closing in like some colossal party...
"There is a mountain in Borneo," Hans began, "We should climb it." He had my attention. Though he was calling over his morning coffee from Tokyo, my phone in Nashville had rung late at night. "It's known as Kinabalu. It means 'the revered place of the spirits'."...
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RADIO NETHERLANDS WERELDEMROEP“Bark EUROPA: In the Wake of the Ancients”Part Five: Cape HornBy: Todd Jarrell SUGGESTED INTRO: The tall ship EUROPA soon returns to her homeport in The Hague from a forty thousand-mile, two-year grand tour. Returning from Pacific waters,...
RADIO NETHERLANDS WERELDOMROEP“Bark EUROPA: In the Wake of the Ancients”Part Four: The Roaring FortiesBy: Todd Jarrell SUGGESTED INTRO: The tall ship EUROPA soon returns to her homeport in The Hague from a forty thousand-mile, two-year grand tour. Returning from...
The loopy blue neon letters spell out "Robert's Western World." Atop the sign stands an 8-foot-tall, no-nonsense brown cowboy boot; inside, the band is playing tunes from another time. Songs drift into the street: throaty, yodeled laments set to a honky-tonk shuffle...
RADIO NETHERLANDS WERELDOMROEP“Bark EUROPA: In the Wake of the Ancients”Part Three: Easter IslandBy: Todd Jarrell SUGGESTED INTRO: The tall ship EUROPA soon returns to her homeport in The Hague from a forty thousand-mile, two-year grand tour. The three masted bark...
RADIO NETHERLANDS WERELDOMROEP“Bark EUROPA; In the Wake of the Ancients”Part Two: At SeaBy: Todd Jarrell SUGGESTED INTRO: The tall ship EUROPA returns soon to her homeport in The Hague from a forty thousand-mile, two-year grand tour. The three masted bark will have...
RADIO NETHERLANDS WERELDOMROEP“Bark EUROPA: In the Wake of the Ancients”Part One: The VoyageWritten By: Todd Jarrell SUGGESTED INTRO: The tall ship EUROPA soon returns to her homeport in The Hague from a forty thousand-mile, two-year grand tour. The three masted bark...