LIFE

A strange tale of crabs, birds, elephants, buffalo and a lamented sea turtle

B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 26/03/2017

» Recently I found myself in Surat Thani at the early-morning wet market. "Let's buy some crabs," my school director had said the night before. "We can release them into the river to make merit." My school director is regular in her efforts to tam boon or "make merit" as the vague English translation happens to be.