This is the seventh and last in a series of extracts from my new book The Return of the Mullet Hunter, which I am posting over the the course of this week. This final extract is an account of a day’s touristing in San Francisco. The photo is of the city’s skyline, taken from the Coit Tower.…
This is the sixth in a series of extracts from my new book The Return of the Mullet Hunter, which I am posting over the the course of this week. This penultimate extract describes an evening in the curious, almost claustrophic town of Fresno, California. The photo is of the town’s utterly out of place cinema.…
This is the fifth in a series of extracts from my new book The Return of the Mullet Hunter, which I am posting over the the course of this week. This antepenultimate extract is about the harsh landscape of the Salton Sea, in the desert of southern California, which I visited in search of Mullet Island.…
This is the fourth in a series of extracts from my new book The Return of the Mullet Hunter, which I am posting over the the course of this week. This fourth extract describes one of my roadtrips through the South Island – a beautiful country that had more than a few echoes of Scotland. The…
This is the third in a series of extracts from my new book The Return of the Mullet Hunter, which I am posting over the the course of this week. This third extract describes my visit to Te Papa, New Zealand’s excellent national museum in Wellington, which at the time of my visit included an exhibition…
This is the second in a series of extracts from my new book The Return of the Mullet Hunter, which I am posting over the the course of this week. This second extract describes my visit to Motutapu Island, an uninhabited island off Auckland which was home to Mullet Bay, one of New Zealand’s five mullets.…
This is the first in a series of extracts from my new book The Return of the Mullet Hunter, which I am posting over the the course of this week. This first extract is from my trip to Canada, the second country I visited in the book. In amongst the mullet hunting, I was able…