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This section contains articles I have written which have not been published elsewhere. If you could like to publish one in your publication or on your site, please contact me on chris@chriswrightmedia.com

Blood, Thunder and Politics at Harlem's Canaan Baptist Church

Chris Wright

Oct 4, 2019
6 min

Blood, Thunder and Politics at Harlem's Canaan Baptist Church

Harlem church tours have become a New York Sunday morning tourist attraction. They can have an uncomfortable voyeuristic feeling, but...

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Chris Wright

Oct 4, 2019
18 min

Diary of a Dash Across Australia

So it was like this. I got a message from my friend Heath, who was on his way from Busselton in Western Australia to Gold Coast in...

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Tears, Track and Tourism on the Death Railway

Chris Wright

Mar 9, 2019
8 min

Tears, Track and Tourism on the Death Railway

A large industry exists around the site of the Thailand-Burma Death Railway, where thousands were worked to death in World War Two. It...

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Jeeps and Lava: Joining the Many at a Mount Bromo Sunrise

Chris Wright

Oct 28, 2018
5 min

Jeeps and Lava: Joining the Many at a Mount Bromo Sunrise

Travelwrighter.com, October 2018 It is 3am and the air is roaring. The sound is coming from jeeps, hundreds of them, climbing the steep...

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Aitutaki: the South Pacific as you want it to be

Chris Wright

Aug 29, 2018
6 min

Aitutaki: the South Pacific as you want it to be

The Cook Islands' crown jewel is the lagoon of Aitutaki What’s your mental picture of the South Pacific? Mine was a lagoon. Clear, blue,...

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Chris Wright

Apr 19, 2018
13 min

Ningaloo: Australia's Secret Reef

While concerns grow about the health of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia's Indian Ocean coast boasts one just as grand but far less...

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Masai Mara: Watching the Wild Life of Wildlife

Chris Wright

Jan 23, 2018
6 min

Masai Mara: Watching the Wild Life of Wildlife

A safari in Kenya is a bucket-list classic, and deservedly so. But it's the detail as much as the grandeur that stays with you afterwards...

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Chris Wright

Jan 14, 2018
4 min

Staying in a story at Loldia

To stay at Loldia House is to stay in a story. Story upon story. There is the story of the main house, a stocky brick and stone...

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Montenegro Tourism Chases its Neighbours

Chris Wright

Apr 1, 2015
5 min

Montenegro Tourism Chases its Neighbours

For adventurers who like to be one step ahead of the tourist hordes, the Balkan state of Montenegro has that frisson of the "destination...

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Chris Wright

Apr 1, 2014
28 min

The Crazy Story of Crazy Horse

The Ziolkowskis and the Crazy Horse Memorial, South Dakota Author's note: The following is an unused draft chapter of my book, No More...

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Chris Wright

Jun 1, 2009
4 min

Paying for Abuse: Inside a Turkish Bath

June 2009 I knew Hasan and I were going to get along when he threw a bucket of water over my head. Granted, he then tried to beat me to...

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