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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Summertime, 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 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 …
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Shelter from the Storm
Fathers and sons, architecture as refuge, and a family’s great loss
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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
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Skype Love
Are we drawn closer by being farther away?
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Southern Ocean Cruising
Sailing south of 60 with explorers Sally and Jérôme Poncet
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Siberian BAM Guide
How to “minimise vodka damage” on the Trans-Siberian trail
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Africa’s Latin Quarter
Despite bleak poverty, Mozambique’s multi-ethnic literary culture thrives
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