November 2007:
The Arctic

Politics

Sovereignty from the North

by Mary Simon

National Magazine Award Nominee

Camels in the Arctic?

by Franklyn Griffiths

National Magazine Award Nominee

The Archetypal Walrus

by John Vaillant

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

Field Notes

With a Light Steam

by Jeff Parker

Getting sweaty with a Russian hulk…[more]

Memoir

Through Darkness and Light

by Andy Kirkpatrick

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

Travel

God’s Dancing Lessons

by Peter Raymont

Notes on survival in Siberia…[more]

Science

Linnaeus Canadensis

by Nancy Pick

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

Detail

On Inuit Art

by John Reeves

For thousands of years, the Inuit survived in the Canadian Arctic as a society of nomadic hunters. Increasing cultural…[more]

Letters

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]

Field Notes

On Moving Ice

by Jon Turk

Surviving the polar summer…[more]

Walrus Reads

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]

Sightings

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]

Walrus Reads

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]

Travel

Paddling Back in Time

by Alison Pick

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

World Press Photo - Photo of the Day

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 «

Society

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]

Photo Essay

Growing Up in Cambridge Bay

by Finn O’Hara

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Toolkit

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 «

Field Notes

Pan Handling

by Jonathan Garfinkel & Medeine Tribinevicius

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

Art

“Scary Dream”

by Suvinai Ashoona

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

Field Notes

The Spinach Armada

by Margo Pfeiff

How the North gets its groceries…[more]

Online Exclusive

26,130*

by Jared Bland and Paul Isaacs

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