John Ironmonger (author of 'Not Forgetting the Whale' - and other books) ... blogging about life, and travel, and books, and family, and writing, and Javan rhinos ...
Greenland - and 'The Wager and the Bear:' The Video [28 Aug 2022]
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The Inauguration Speech that could Save the World (... if only ...)
My fellow Americans … and my fellow citizens of Planet Earth . Today I want to address you all. We are all one people. We may live in differ...

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Up river in Ujung Kulon looking for Javan Rhinos ... I'd be the first to admit that Indonesia isn't exactly a top destination o...
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[ This was posted to my blog on 12th February 2020 when we were only just beginning to hear about Coronavirus - just in case you wonder why...
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This gorgeous cover-design is for my novella, ‘ The Year of the Dugong’ (Das Jahr des Dugong )’ due to be published in German on October 2...
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At Kenton ... The Stanley Nairobi Back in January I shared, on this blog, my anxieties about going back to Nairobi. ‘Never Go Back,’ was the...
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What is it like to hear someone read your writing aloud? I don't think I'd ever had that experience before. Not really; not read...
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Perhaps I shouldn't admit to this. Maybe I should post a youthful photo and pretend to be thirty five. Oh dear. This is harder than I th...
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Lava flowing into the sea I really should have consulted a map. But I'll blame the guidebooks all the same. They all say that Krakato...
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Orang A village on the Sekonyer river A Klotok Proboscis Monkeys Enough of books and book prizes and the stresses and ...
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Never go back. I’ve been given that piece of advice plenty of times, by lots of different people, but always with reference to one partic...