The Observer, 21 January 2007

The snake was at least two metres long and eventually identified as a forest cobra, although I initially had it down as a piece of hosepipe. It was writhe-around-in-the-dust, nasty-way-to-go deadly. And it was in my shower. That I considered picking it up says little for my common sense, but the [...]

New Statesman, 15 January 2007

Carl Wilkinson made a journey to meet the Karen tribes of Burma - and found them in Thailand
It’s 6am. The sky is the colour of gruel as the mist clears, and there is the fine scent of old wood smoke in the cold air. From deep inside my thin sleeping bag [...]