Feb 6, 2011
Spring Awakening
I know I’m jumping the gun but I couldn’t help feeling today that this wretched winter is almost over. Here on Long Island there is tons of snow still – but brilliant sunshine. We lay on the beach in our winter coats dozing like seals. It’s been a brute of a January: like Baffin Island, which I visited many years ago. I have felt like an Inuit. The driveway frozen, snow compacted to... read more
Simon Worrall was born in Wellington, England and spent his childhood in Eritrea, Paris and Singapore. He has written for publications all over the world, including National Geographic, Smithsonian, London Times, The Guardian, Paris Review, GQ, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Conde Nast Traveler, Maxim, Playboy,Die Zeit and the New Statesman. He divides his time between Herefordshire and the East End of Long Island.
