I often wish I was born in the time of the early explorers. I’d have been truly content searching for plants and animals that were new to science in remote, exotic places where Indigenous tribes and plentiful wild fauna still dominated the landscape.
The problem is, for naturalists like me, truly off-the-beaten-track places…
Anger, blame, revenge. It’s what you’d feel if one day a stranger murdered someone you love – right? Well, remarkably, that’s not the case for everyone. Extraordinarily there are those who can find it within themselves to respond more peacefully, even managing to forgive - and finding peace, even closure, in the process.
In this…