Lauren at 17 in Olgii with AralbaiAt 25 on her Fulbright:With Aralbai, classic Kazakh cowboy, and his new eagle just before her return.Sooner or later we will get Peculiar to get some of his “Mongolia expedition staff at 17” photos too…
Month: September 2011
Mongolia Bad?
More Boston. A good person- but she did not approve of my encouraging a young woman to go to Mongolia,and I am not sure I ever convinced her…VERY grumpy. Two deadlines down and a big one still to go. I need a weight machine; more, to GET OUT. But duty calls…
Q o’ D
(On racing and boxing, grumpy): “Riding horses to exhaustion and punching each other in the face under agreed rules are worthwhile and manly pastimes, far better pedigreed and infinitely more exciting than hitting balls with sticks, tossing leather bags across a field, or chasing a puck around on ice.” John Derbyshire
Cladistics
From the always reliable XKCD, via Jonathan who just emailed that he was in Nairobi impatiently waiting to go out in the bush. We should all be so lucky as to have THAT cause for impatience!
Obligatory cute dog pic
Irbis preparing to bolt for his kennel because he is being photographed (by R. A. W.).
A Few Links
I have been neglecting my blog family. Check the sidebar for new additions to the blogroll- Border Wars, and my neighbor (forty miles on dirt roads) Morgan Atwood at Rum & Donuts, who has abandoned his pseudonym “Nagrom”. Also, LoARSqred, partner of MDMNM of Sometimes Far Afield, has moved with him to Small City NM …
Malcolm Appleby
Malcolm Appleby, the engraver and metalsmith who engraves guns as animals and canvases for his fantasies as well as an amazing array of other things– objects, drawings, and more— is probably best known for his Raven Gun in the Tower of London, though I wish they would display it better, not in a dark inaccessible …
Mongolian Art
Just for fun– the cover of a small Mongolian pb treatise on Eagle Hunting (in Mongolian– can’t read a word of it) that I found as I dug deeper into the library.. Sure, it is sort of Soviet- influenced I suppose, but its bold vivid block print style is still striking.
Boothroyd
Here is the 1987 (see ref to Betsy’s death) letter from “James Bond’s Armourer” praising the Model 12 that I promised last night– click to enlarge, twice if needed. Also notice that handguns were still legal in England then…
Five (million)-star accommodations
Jim and I decided we were ready for a night out, so on Saturday evening we took a bottle of wine, our sleeping bags, and dogs, and headed for our sheep pasture. Jim built a small bonfire and we relaxed, eventually crawling into our sleeping bags to sleep under the stars alongside the New Fork …