Treasure Islands
Small pleasures and large truths in the South Pacific.
Read MoreJuly/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…
800 Clicks to Broadway
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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No Escape, Not Even to Kyoto
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 …
Read MoreThe Double Knot
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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Young Leaders, Algonquin Park, 1978
My group would hump our stuff along the trail, while the other would tie ropes to the canoes and tow them up the creek
Read MoreThe Getaway
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 …
Read MoreSummertime, When the Visigoths Go Pillaging
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 …
Read MoreAll the Way Home
I found myself in Austin, Texas
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Summer Time
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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