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July/August 2008

Travel and adventure reading from Paul Watson, Michael Redhill, Guy Gavriel Kay, Jane Urquhart, Miriam Toews, and Pico Iyer; Jon Turk relives his kayak trip around the island nation of Vanuatu; Wendy Dennis reflects on her time living in Austin, Texas; Jill Frayne explores the beauty and danger of lightning…

Feature / July/August 2008

Treasure Islands

July 12, 2008October 15, 2019 - by Jon Turk

Small pleasures and large truths in the South Pacific.

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First Person / July/August 2008

800 Clicks to Broadway

July 12, 2008April 15, 2020 - by Jane Urquhart

For at least a year after the Little Long Lac gold mine closed and our family left the country north of Superior for the city of Toronto, I could bring …

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First Person / July/August 2008

No Escape, Not Even to Kyoto

July 12, 2008May 25, 2020 - by Pico Iyer

There’s no escaping anything in life. Fly all the way to Tahiti or the Himalayas, and what you’ll find—as the Hollywood clichés often remind us—is that person who’s always longing …

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Fiction / July/August 2008

The Double Knot

July 12, 2008April 15, 2020 - by Miriam Toews

I’m in a bag. I’m in a straitjacket in a bag. It’s a sky-blue laundry bag that Angie my ex-wife made me, and there are two, maybe three hundred people …

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Illustration by Simon Ng
First Person / July/August 2008

Young Leaders, Algonquin Park, 1978

July 12, 2008April 15, 2020 - by Paul Watson

My group would hump our stuff along the trail, while the other would tie ropes to the canoes and tow them up the creek

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Fiction / July/August 2008

The Getaway

July 12, 2008April 15, 2020 - by Michael Redhill

The operation is a success. Still covered in bandages and groggy from the drugs, they drive me on the smaller roads through the forest to the town with the single …

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First Person / July/August 2008

Summertime, When the Visigoths Go Pillaging

July 12, 2008April 15, 2020 - by Guy Gavriel Kay

There’s something intriguing about the currently received notion of summer as a season for escape. Once upon a very different time, if you were escaping in summer it was very …

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Feature / July/August 2008

All the Way Home

July 12, 2008January 4, 2020 - by Wendy Dennis

I found myself in Austin, Texas

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Cities / July/August 2008

Grounded

July 12, 2008May 1, 2017 - by David Beers

Imagining a world without flight

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July/August 2008 / Society

Summer Time

July 12, 2008October 15, 2019 - by Ken Alexander

A suggestion: It’s summer. Collapse into yourself. Remain where you are, with a good book in hand. That is, escape by staying put, on the couch or hammock, with your …

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