Seraphin told me that during Carnival, people in his village drum on goatskins and crack whips. “The whip is from the time of ...

Even in the severe cold, the work makes them sweat. They spread out the goatskins and the blankets. One man starts a fire using birch bark for tinder, another fills the billycan from a hole ...

Like the potential of the extracted tannin from Sodom apple (Solanum Incanum) fruit for its effectiveness as a vegetable tanning agent on goatskins. Moreover, this utilizes natural plant materials ...

It all seems pointless. Maybe abroad? “Rubbing your backside with a colored scarf and squirting wine out of goatskins?” Hopefully he hops off to Spain, moves into a dingy pensión, sits around ...

cloaks of goatskins, and 20 kilos of cowbells. These rather unsettling figures are said to predate Sardinia’s Christianity, with a tradition going back 2,000 years, yet appear in one small area ...

Off the coast of the Caribbean island of Dominica, sperm whales are making a big splash. Swim alongside them and you may find yourself hooked. Patrick Dykstra/Courtesy of Natural World Safaris ...

The bed Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first President used to sleep on in a cave in Taita-Taveta County during the struggle for independence. [Renson Mnyamwezi/Standard] A bed used by Mzee Jomo ...