The Saturday Travel section of the Globe and Mail this week was devoted to travel books. The books editor, Mark Medley, got together with the travel editor, Domini Clark, and created a list of the best books to kickstart your wanderlust.
You can armchair travel to Nepal, Dubai or Namibia, but if you are dreaming of the Arctic, they recommend Paddlenorth, Boundless and Circling the Midnight Sun.
Enjoy!
The title says it all! This June, a new chapter of my cultural storytelling begins in French Polynesia (insert endless exclamation marks here). I’ll focus on the Marquesas, the most distant island group in this part of the Pacific, and a robust cultural network. I’m calling the project South Pacific Stories, I’m still pinching myself, and…
Five friends and I completed a 54-day canoe expedition on Nunavut’s Back River in the summer of 2005. I was ready to be tested, but I never imagined the combination of grief, beauty and disaster that would push me to the limit and leave me with a new understanding of the wild. I wrote this essay at the Banff Centre’s Literary Journalism program in 2005.
December 2, 2011: Producer Steve Wadhams created this re-vision of my New Tribe documentary. His radio magic with my tape and voice creates an audio portrait gallery. To listen to this piece, go to the Living Out Loud page and then click on the audio link. This story was rebroadcast on September 7 and 9,…
Johannes Eyberg Ragnarsson (Eyberg) and his wife Gudlaug Sigurdardottir (Lauga) make farming look easy. When I visited, they had 100 sheep, 30 dairy cows, 32 calves and a few cattle that they… Source: Western Iceland’s land of milk and hay | Meet the North
