Geographical journeys: microlectures

It's a post-lockdown world when adventure calls. Inspired by curiosity, a love of nature and the pursuit of aliveness, Ali Quinn answers by going on a longish walk around Cornwall.

Amy Van Allen bridges knowledge systems and embraces key Andean sayings while guiding museum development projects in Indigenous communities along the Inka Road. 

Louis Hall pioneers a new trail over the Ligurian Alps, encountering wolves, snowy passes, the kindness of strangers, and the challenges of solitude, on an uncharted long distance horse trek.

Arriving as a student, Chiyasmi Devi heeds the advice of her professor to “keep the researcher’s eye”, and unintentionally becomes the subject of her own urban geography studies.

Seanna Fallon follows the route solo, through forests, beaches, mountains and desert. As their biggest fear comes to light, the inner journey becomes even more powerful than the physical one.

Cycling between ecological regeneration projects, Jane Williamson considers how much greater the impacts of rewilding could be, if efforts to restore degraded landscapes prioritised connecting people with nature.

Mike Keen kayaks solo from south to north Greenland through storms and icebergs, while eating a purely ancestral Inuit diet to study the nutritional effect on his body.