Waters

The Spaniards named these islands “the Martyrs”: from afar, the rocks above the water looked to them like suffering men. Later the wreckers lived here, Hemingway…

The deepest and oldest lake on Earth: more than a kilometre and a half of water and some twenty-five million years. It holds a fifth of…

A short fast river in the tundra running into the Arctic Ocean. The biggest Arctic char ever taken on rod and line was caught here, and…

A lake that breathes. In the dry season it is shallow, knee-deep, but in the rains the Mekong turns the Tonle Sap River backwards and the…

Two villages on a sandy cape at the mouth of the Baltic where, every autumn for three centuries, a town of thousands of people, barrels and…

Asia's longest river. On it vanished the baiji river dolphin and a paddlefish that had lived here since the age of the dinosaurs. And in 2021…

A town on an island at the mouth of the Senegal and a fishermen's quarter on a narrow spit between river and ocean. Every morning painted…

A river where men searched for copper and found char. At a waterfall fifteen kilometres from the mouth people have fished for thousands of years —…

The sacred river of south India, called the Ganga of the south. For a hundred years people came here for the mahseer, the “tiger of the…

Australia's longest river. The Ngarrindjeri say its bends were carved by the tail of a giant cod fleeing a hunter. Then paddle steamers came up the…

Captain John Smith tried to catch fish here with a frying pan — they stood that thick. Oysters were once raked from the bay by the…

Africa's largest lake and the source of the Nile. Five hundred kinds of fish lived in it that no other lake had ever known. Then one…