Previously Arts editor and Media editor of The Guardian, he's now a freelance writer and author of the Profile in The Sunday Times, for which he was also formerly Paris correspondent. Stuart has travelled extensively to write about traditional hunting societies, spending time with the Semai Senoi aborigines in Malaysia, the Bushmen of the Kalahari, Canadian Indians in the Arctic, and a traditional Inuit hunting community on Baffin Island. "Trails To Heaven", an Arctic adventure novel, is his first book.