Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

482 Suu Kyi’s remarks on the constitution of Myanmar are reported in Claire Phipps and Matthew Weaver, “Aung San Suu Kyi vows to make all the decisions in Myanmar’s new government,” Guardian, November 10, 2015; see also Fergal Keane, “Myanmar election: Full BBC interview with Aung San Suu Kyi,” BBC News, November 10, 2015.

Lost at the Surface

483 I would not have seemed such an adventurous eater had I been born forty years later. Eel has become so popular that both Japanese and American varieties have been added to the International Endangered Species List; see Frances Cha, “Japanese eel becomes latest ‘endangered food,’ ” CNN Travel, February 5, 2013; and Annie Sneed, “American eel is in danger of extinction,” Scientific American, December 1, 2014.

484 Dutch Springs Quarry in Lehigh, Pennsylvania, is the watery grave of not only a school bus, but also a fire truck, a trolley, three different airplanes, and a Sikorsky H-37 helicopter; see Julie Morgan, “Keeping ’em diving in the Keystone State,” Sport Diver, April 21, 2006.

485 My opening address at the Sydney Writers’ Festival can be viewed on the festival website, at http://swf.org.au.

485 Orpheus Island Resort, a pleasant enough place when you aren’t being abandoned at sea by its incompetent staff and then asked to pay for your trip by its impenitent manager, has a website at http://orpheus.com.au.

487 Although the Tarzan yell is unmistakable, its provenance is debatable; see Bill De Main, “The disputed history of the Tarzan yell,” Mental Floss, August 22, 2012.

490 The story “In Which Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded by Water” is chapter 9 of A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh (1926).

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