Lawrence Millman

A Luddite Lexicon is a dictionary of words and phrases that speak out against the technological matrix currently enveloping our planet.

So there I was, swatting mosquitoes on Victoria Island in the Canadian Arctic.

I am excited to share my latest book, available at better bookstores everywhere.

Hardly anything, not even an infant asleep in a stroller, raises the oxytocin of certain people to such Everest-like heights as the sight of a wide-eyed, round-headed Canis familiaris, otherwise known as a dog.

Once upon a time the Explorers Club was one of the most prestigious organizations on the planet.

Thanks to the unabashed tourist meccas of Nassau and Freeport, the word “Bahamas” calls up images of mega-gambling casinos, no less mega-cruise ships, package tours, and hordes of sun-reddened figures lying on a beach.

So there you are, walking along the Atlantic City Boardwalk.

On September 9, 2014, Parks Canada discovered the remains of the HMS Erebus, explorer Sir John Franklin’s remarkably newsworthy flagship.

One of my finest moments occured at Na-Bolom in San Christobal de las Casas, Mexico, in the fall of 1992.

Not so long ago, I was visiting a stamp-collecting friend, and I happened to see the corticioid species Terana caerulea on a recent Macedonian stamp.