Issue 41 · August 1, 2026

Issue 41 — Water Country

Deltas, reefs and river cities · Reef recovery, honestly assessed · Cold-water swimming's civic turn

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  • The back page

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Half the destinations in this issue are places where the map is redrawn every monsoon. Delta country resists the kind of travel writing that fixes a place in amber.

We have tried to write about water as infrastructure rather than scenery: the ferry timetable, the tide, the seasonal road that stops being a road.