Wanderlust, December 2008. History has been hard on Chukotka. The most north-easterly region of Siberia, it's considered so desperately remote and backward that when Russians tell 'idiot' jokes, it's the Chukchi who take the flak...

Food & Wine, October 2008. "I’m leaving tomorrow morning, very early, for Sicily,” Count Paolo Marzotto tells me. It’s hard to grasp why anyone would leave this idyllic spot, let alone fly at the crack of dawn to the opposite end of Italy. It’s a balmy Sunday afternoon, and we’re enjoying a family lunch with the Count’s wife, Florence Daniel, and their daughters, sons-in-law and grandchildren at Villa Nievo, their home in Vicenza, 40 miles west of Venice. Our table is on a flagstone terrace that runs the length of the older wing of the 300-year-old house, where the stucco exterior is painted a deep cranberry.

Condé Nast Traveller, June 2008. New-found creature comforts make the voyage into Canada's wildest landscape a lot more appealing.

Wanderlust, April/May 2008. The front line of the Sino-Japanese war was a strange place for a honeymoon, but this was what Ernest Hemingway insisted on calling it. He’d married fellow war correspondent and novelist Martha Gellhorn a couple of months before she was to report for Collier’s on the Chinese army in action – and he went too.

Wanderlust, April/May 2008. “You’re not thinking of going out in this, are you?” the café owner asked as he served us. There was something about his frightened eyes that suggested he was speaking to a pair of lunatics about to breathe their last gasps of salty Manx air...

Wanderlust, March 2008. The discovery of the yellow stuff near Dawson City in the Yukon in 1896 led to the greatest gold rush in history, with thousands braving the perils of the sub-Arctic wilderness in search of wealth. Polly Evans follows the trail of the Klondike stampeders

Wanderlust.co.uk, 14 February 2008. Thousands once stampeded down Canada's Yukon River in search of gold, but these days its greatest draw is utter tranquillity

Sunday Times, 23 September 2007. They say the Yukon Quest is the toughest dogsledding race in the world. It runs each February between Whitehorse in Canada’s Yukon Territory and Fairbanks, Alaska, across 1,000 miles of frozen wasteland. For 10 days mushers survive alone and unaided with their dogs in blizzards and temperatures as low as -40C – surely no environment for a Jamaican. But that’s not how 44-year-old Devon Anderson sees it...