Fates

They will have taken note of the differing fates of leaders in Libya and North Korea.

Artists who complained too much about any of this, or who were suspected of defiance, soon faced worse fates.

Iori Kobayashi of Sports Nippon, 25, and Akihiro Ueno of Full Count, 27, accepted their fates without question.

Among the candidates for lower judicial posts is Delia Quiroa, 42, who has spent years providing legal advice to families seeking to trace the fates of “disappeared” relatives.

Now, a year on from finishing writing, the currents still flow on: I remain closely involved with lives and fates of four of the rivers at the book’s heart: the Río Los Cedros in the Ecuadorian cloud-forest, the Mutehekau Shipu in north-eastern Quebec, Ennore Creek in Chennai and the fragile little chalk-stream which rises in a spring-site a mile from my house here in Cambridge, England, and flows through my years and through the book’s pages.