James Hamilton-Paterson on Granta.com
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The Online Edition
The Separate World of Seaports
James Hamilton-Paterson & Alex Majoli
‘I am aged eight or nine, on a family outing by Thames water bus in London’.
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The Online Edition
Asking for it
James Hamilton-Paterson
‘Having my hair cut one morning in February 1999, I fell foul of one of those barber-shop discussions which are a feature of life here in Italy’.
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The Online Edition
The End of Travel
James Hamilton-Paterson
‘The more we flock to view the disappearing glaciers, the faster they will vanish.’
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Issue 91
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Issue 91
The Weather Where We Are
Various Contributors
‘Ice gets into the sea in two ways: it falls in from calving glaciers, or it forms during the winter. Both kinds are spectacular.’
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Issue 91
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Issue 83
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Issue 83
Do Fish Feel Pain?
James Hamilton-Paterson
‘There will always be an unbridgeable conceptual gap between our unique species and the rest.’
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Issue 83
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Issue 83
When I Was Lost
James Hamilton-Paterson
‘Maybe the trick is to find your surroundings so engrossing, so diverting, as to be unaware that anyone is missing you. The chances are nobody is’.
