MALAMALA GAME RESERVE
MALAMALA GAME Reserve is in northeastern South Africa, its 33,000 acres sharing an unfenced border with this country’s Kruger National Park. Visiting there in 2002, I learned that MalaMala is … Continue reading
BROOKLANDS DOUBLE TWELVE
WEYBRIDGE, SURREY, is a quiet neighborly locale about an hour southwest of London. It has always been quiet and neighborly, except for around-the-clock shenanigans run at the Brooklands Motor Course. … Continue reading
WORDS FROM WFB
SOME PICK a book by its cover. I’ve been known to pick them by their titles. And so it was with Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription, a sentiment I’d rate … Continue reading
THE LYSANDER
IF JAMES Bond were an aeroplane, he’d be a Westland Lysander: tough, powerful, extremely capable in clandestine operations and resolutely British. I trust as well he’d be confident enough in … Continue reading
LEO’S ART
THE ART of Leo Bestgen enriched the pages of Road & Track for four decades. His illustrations entertained readers of R&T columns ranging from “Miscellaneous Ramblings” through “Side Glances” to … Continue reading
CURTISS OX-5
THIS PARTICULAR aircraft engine earns being my all-time favorite not because of its power, but through its engineering evolution, its eventual ubiquity—and its wonderfully bizarre valve gear. The engine is … Continue reading
MARIA MONTESSORI
TO SOME, the word “Montessori” conjures up an image of unruly kids being taught frou-frou things by means of artsy pedagogy. But nothing could be further from the truth—or the … Continue reading
SOLAR HYDROGEN
THE PROMISE of a hydrogen highway populated by highly efficient fuel-cell vehicles depends on readily available—and inexpensive—H2. The electrolysis of water is one source of this hydrogen: Applying an electric … Continue reading
HOLMES OUT OF TIME
GIVEN THAT Sherlock Holmes is timeless, it’s no wonder that he and his colleague Dr. John H. Watson now and then appear anachronistically. Here are several of my favorites, decidedly … Continue reading
TRINOMIAL CUBE
I FIRST encountered a Trinomial Cube—as opposed to its purely algebraic and possibly intimidating namesake, (A+B+C)3—when I lived in the Caribbean in the 1970s and daughters Suz and Beth went … Continue reading
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