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Guatemalan police documents go online 29 Apr 2012 | 03:41 am
10 million scanned documents from the Guatemalan National Police Archive (which I covered for Smithsonian) have been put online.
Jamaica-bound with Global Reef Expedition 6 Mar 2012 | 11:27 am
This Friday I’m heading to Jamaica to blog for the Khaled bin Sultan Living Ocean Foundation’s Global Reef Expedition to Pedro Bank (March 10-20). It’s part of one of the largest-ever studies of threa...
Life.com Africa photo gallery 20 Apr 2011 | 03:06 pm
Life.com recently ran a gallery of my photos from the trip. Wow – now I can say I’m a “Life photographer”…
Partly word cloudy 14 Apr 2011 | 07:33 am
O internet, is there anything you can’t do? Like make a tag cloud of my entire book? In an old-timey font? In the shape of Africa? Oh no, wait–you can do that: And just for comparison, here’s Grogan...
Crossing the Heart of Africa wins memoir award from ASJA 9 Apr 2011 | 08:21 am
I’m thrilled to report that CHA has won the 2011 Outstanding Book Award for memoir/autobiography from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. And in other news, a photo gallery from my 2007 ...
Southern Sudan votes for independence 22 Jan 2011 | 07:42 am
They were talking about it when I visited in 2007, and now they did it: Southern Sudan voted overwhelmingly–close to 99 percent–to split off from the north. The largest country in Africa is about to b...
Crossing the Heart of Africa now available online at Starbucks 22 Dec 2010 | 11:51 am
From today through Jan 1, the book is available online at any Starbucks through their Bookish Reading Club. When you hop online (now free), you can log in and start reading, and also save your place f...
Grogan’s legacy in the Pacific Northwest 18 Dec 2010 | 09:15 am
First I learn that one of Grogan’s great-grandsons lives right up the road from Portland, where he’s an architectural illustrator. He met Grogan as a young boy in Kenya. I was lucky enough to meet him...
It’s Official! Crossing the Heart of Africa now on sale 8 Dec 2010 | 07:32 am
I’ve been working on it for so long – over 5 years – that publication day itself almost seems like a surreal anticlimax. Almost. Really, it’s amazing, and overwhelming to see it up there on Amazon. T...
Crossing the Heart of Africa picked for Starbucks in-store Bookish Reading Club 6 Dec 2010 | 09:00 pm
Great news! Crossing the Heart of Africa has been chosen for Starbucks’ new in-store Bookish Reading Club this December. From December 14-28, you’ll be able to read the entire book online at any Star...
