—V.viii.389-90 Red Cross Alley, London: 2 June, 1625 They found him in a narrow alley, within smelling distance of the riverside wharves and the pestilential tenements that crowded them, with his throat slit from ear to ear. Sir Michael Deven knelt in the muck, not caring ...
As chronicled in Around the World in Search of Dragons, we did not have much luck in locating a place where both the draconic and archaeological halves of the expedition could further their efforts. Modern-day dragon naturalists are much more organized about this than I wa...
Compared to the swamp proper, those upper reaches are dry and scrubby, with dwarfish vegetation (however much it may tower above the trees and brush of the savannah). Once you descend into the heart of the Green Hell, you find yourself in a land of water and giants. The trees there soar forty or ...