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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

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.

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Through Darkness and Light

by Andy Kirkpatrick

Exhuming the ghosts of war in England and Greenland…[more]

God’s Dancing Lessons

by Peter Raymont

Notes on survival in Siberia…[more]

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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. [more]

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 «

Paddling Back in Time

by Alison Pick

Navigating the icy wake of an Arctic explorer…[more]

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…[more]

Sovereignty from the North

by Mary Simon

An Inuit leader says Canada is asleep at the post in the Arctic…[more]

Growing Up in Cambridge Bay

by Finn O’Hara

A Walrus Online Exclusive: Click » View Photo Gallery «

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…[more]

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 «

National Magazine Award Nominee

The Archetypal Walrus

by John Vaillant

Reflections on robbing the dead. NMA nominee: Best Short Feature…[more]

“Scary Dream”

by Suvinai Ashoona

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

Pan Handling

by Jonathan Garfinkel & Medeine Tribinevicius

Going for gold the old-fashioned way…[more]

26,130*

by Jared Bland and Paul Isaacs

Full disclosure of kilometres traveled by Our Writer in the duty of Honest Research.…[more]

With a Light Steam

by Jeff Parker

Getting sweaty with a Russian hulk…[more]

From the Inside Out

by Ken Alexander

I have never been to the Arctic — Canadian, Siberian, or any other northern region now being contested because…[more]

Linnaeus Canadensis

by Nancy Pick

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

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…[more]

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…[more]

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