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November 2007:
The Arctic

"Even when you go to a place you thought was empty, there is always something that tells you that people were there."
-- Ipiak, an Aivilingmiut Inuit from Nunavut

November 2007:
The Arctic

The Spinach Armada

by Margo Pfeiff

How the North gets its groceries

World Press Photo Gallery

by 2007 prizewinners

As a sponsor of the World Press Photo 07 exhibition in Toronto, The Walrus is pleased to present a critical analysis of a selection of the images. » View Photo Gallery «

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by Jared Bland and Paul Isaacs

Full disclosure of kilometres traveled by Our Writer in the duty of Honest Research.

The Archetypal Walrus

by John Vaillant

Reflections on robbing the dead. NMA nominee: Best Short Feature

“Scary Dream”

by Suvinai Ashoona

Vivid nightmare vision from Cape Dorset artist. » View Photo Gallery «

November 2007

by The Walrus Readers

Hi-fi Dubai As a member of the thoroughbred horse industry, I have travelled to Dubai periodically over the last eleven years, since the

Review — Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut

by Daniel Baird

Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut compiled and edited by John Bennett and Susan Rowley McGill-Queen’s UP (2004), 473 pp.

Sovereignty from the North

by Mary Simon

An Inuit leader says Canada is asleep at the post in the Arctic

National Magazine Award Nominee

Camels in the Arctic?

by Franklyn Griffiths

Climate change as the Inuit see it: “From the inside out.” NMA nominee: Politics and Public Interest

Through Darkness and Light

by Andy Kirkpatrick

Exhuming the ghosts of war in England and Greenland

Linnaeus Canadensis

by Nancy Pick

Almost 300 years ago, the great Swedish naturalist sent an acolyte to discover Canada’s flora and fauna

Portraits of Inuit Artists

by John Reeves

Photographer and Arctic enthusiast John Reeves first made pictures in Cape Dorset almost 50 years ago. A committed. » View Photo Gallery «

Arctic Facts, Figures and Archives

by Daniel Aldana Cohen & Paul Isaacs; illustrations by Sabine Klaus

An excerpt from a miscellany of the Canadian North. The full set appears in the print edition of the November 2007 issue.. » View Photo Gallery «

Review — Arctic Hell-ship: The Voyage of the HMS Enterprise 1850-1855

by Jared Bland

Arctic Hell-ship: The Voyage of the hms Enterprise 1850–1855 by William Barr University of Alberta Press

To Live and Die in Wales, Alaska

by Tony Hopfinger

A young man tries to make his way in a village still reeling from the flu of 1918

Paddling Back in Time

by Alison Pick

Navigating the icy wake of an Arctic explorer

Growing Up in Cambridge Bay

by Finn O’Hara

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