Mount Kenya
“Suddenly, I felt the stinging bites all over my body. I flung my rod on the ground, ripped off my trousers, and opened my shirt.”
A quiet fishing trip. A nest of safari ants. And a buffalo blocking the way out.
Selections from Echoes From Far Lands
Start with a story.
A fishing trip goes wrong, a visitor misunderstands a farm, and a cauliflower becomes a reason to think again.
Why not plant in rows?
A visitor sees untidy crops. An agriculturalist sees a farmer managing risk.
Even from buying a cauliflower.
In the book’s closing chapter, Ridley considers what an ordinary trip to the grocer might teach us.