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		<title>Dancing Demoiselles of the desert</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Brazil</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a dry, dusty, desert landscape, the clamoring of cranes seems so surprising. I am used to the great winter assembly of more than 10,000 cranes in Kyushu at Izumi, where they congregate on winter-fallow rice fields; and I regularly frequent the winter gatherings of Red-crowned Cranes in snowy eastern Hokkaido. I have dreamed, too, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impossible forests where tides ebb and flow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Kagoshima Prefecture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A ripple flows gently inland across an expanse of dark-gray mud. It washes in, then drains back, dampening the surface; it briefly fills, then empties from, tiny holes made by innumerable small crabs. The ebb is over, and the flow tide has begun. The ripple returns again, and again, soon the mud is awash, water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journeying to the ends of the Earth &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Brazil</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Travel is an addiction for which there seems no cure. Once under its sway, it is best just to ride out the alternating fevers and chills and see where they take you. Around nontravelers or infrequent travelers, I find that my tales of far-flung places lead quickly to my listeners&#8217; eyes glazing over, or a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware: Devil birds at work in the woods</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Brazil</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The final months of the year seem something of an afterthought following the delightful palette of autumn colors; they offer only fickle moods and fickle weather. On November or December days of crisp, cold sunshine, when distant views beckon and late-flying dragonflies and late-flowering asters seem to relish and reflect the blue sky, a wander [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The little &#8216;black bird&#8217; is a hit, from Liverpool all the way to Asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Brazil</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is 50 years this year since the best-selling band in history, The Beatles, released their first single, &#8220;Love Me Do.&#8221; They were set to catapult Britain into the Swinging &#8217;60s and launch a global musical phenomenon. It wasn&#8217;t so much that many of their singles and LPs sold in vast quantities, but that their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lake Shikotsu: a Hokkaido wonderland awaits</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent the last four hours perspiring under the summer sun, moving slowly and photographing wildflowers. Having hiked the circuitous, twin-peaked route around the caldera of constantly active 1,041-meter Mount Tarumae, I then loped up and down a small peak known only as Kyu-san-ni (its height, of 932 meters, since kyu means &#8220;nine,&#8221; san [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singing the praises of greenery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Brazil</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s annual hop between the hemispheres in my capacity as a globetrotting nature-tour guide took me to my namesake country, Brazil, with strange and unusual hopes. Following the almost unprecedented heat of this year&#8217;s August in Hokkaido, I wondered if, for once, September&#8217;s spring in Brazil may actually feel cooler than Japan. But not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living the botanical high life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan, though it has a very different image, is on the same latitude as southern Europe and North Africa, while my nearest city, Sapporo, is oddly enough on the same east-west parallel as France&#8217;s boisterously cosmopolitan second city of Marseille on the Mediterranean. Tokyo, meanwhile, shares its latitude not only with exotic Tangier in Morocco, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man on a mountain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the very center of Hokkaido lies a landscape so far removed from the urban sprawl of much of lowland Japan that you might be forgiven for asking: &#8220;Is this really Japan?&#8221; Far more reminiscent of the higher latitudes of Kamchatka and Chukotka (northeastern Russia) or of northern central Alaska (United States) than of Kanto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The air around us is teeming with life &#8212; it&#8217;s just too tiny to see</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I approached the top of Mount Tarumae&#8217;s western peak, located in Hokkaido&#8217;s Shikotsu-Toya National Park, for a brief moment I thought an early reward was awaiting me in the form of clusters of ripe blueberries in the bush tops. At first glance it appeared that the bushes were in fruit, and it was only [...]]]></description>
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