Whale processing
On a fjord in the far north west of Iceland, on the Hornstrandir peninsula, there is a long-disused Norwegian whale-processing factory.
To reach the Hornstrandir is not a simple matter. It is a
Splanky I—Atlantic
Disquiet in Greenland
Landscapes are repetitions... . Only landscapes that don't exist and books I'll never read aren't tedious.
Fernando Pessoa, Livro do Desassossego
I have related elsewhere how I took
Seaweed
Full fathom five thy father lies
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich
Interior II—Gander
From time to time the interior of Newfoundland—a place of monochrome boreal forest, of limited resource, of long straight roads to elsewhere—opens itself up to enquiry.
It is a fitful business.
Interior I—Beothuk
The interior of Newfoundland is thinly settled. This has always been so. Newfoundland is extensive, perhaps half the land area of the United Kingdom; but it is, in the words of historian and