Simon Akam
Articles by Simon Akam
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Travel
Spirit of the woods
- 25 June 2009
Simon Akam experiences the calm of an artists’ retreat in upstate New York with an impressive visitors’ book
Society
Old wound, same pain
- 11 June 2009
The conquest of the Wild West left North America’s first inhabitants scattered, diseased and broken. Can they find a panacea at the gambling table?
Books
Tsars in their eyes
- 19 February 2009
The Coronation Boris Akunin Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 311pp, £16.99
Travel
Peak practice
- 12 February 2009
- 1 comment
Cycling in mountainous, jagged Norway is not for the faint-hearted, as Simon Akam discovers
North America
Dancing in Harlem's streets
- 05 November 2008
- 11 comments
As the US strolls into a brighter future Simon Akam enjoyed the historic moment in Harlem as black and white Americans celebrated the election of Barack Obama to be president
North America
''We're still fighting the Civil War here"
- 30 October 2008
Virginia, a former slave state and Republican stronghold, could help secure the presidency for Barack Obama if thousands of unregistered and disenfranchised black voters can be mobilised
