Kate Whitehead

The American scholar and conservationist recalls how a picture of a footprint in a newspaper sparked a lifelong ambition to solve a centuries-old mystery Rumble in the jungle My grandparents were cowboys in Kansas. They paid their way through medical school and after they graduated went to India to work as medical missionaries, just before the…

Kate Whitehead wanted to know more about her ancestry – and was pleased by the results – but also learned about her health

A new segment of adventurers is searching the cities for what others have left behind

Are you always rushing from one place to the next? Do you often eat without really tasting the food?

A frequent ‘cattle class’ traveller says its time to introduce women-only seating sections on planes to end the battle for the armrest once and for all

Hong Kong’s literary festival offers a packed programme of foreign and local writers. Kate Whitehead takes her pick