Escape: Summer 2008
"I needed to get clear about some things, and the only way to do so was to jettison my past, dismantle my present, and drive 2,600 kilometres to a place where nobody knew my name." --Wendy Dennis, in "All the Way Home"
Escape: Summer 2008
No Escape, Not Even to Kyoto
by Pico Iyer
There’s no escaping anything in life. Fly all the way to Tahiti oillustration by Lala Ladcani
Fiction
The Eagle Has Landed
by J.M. Kearns
As Dubya winds down his eight-year train wreck, J.M. Kearns takes a sci-fi look at what might have been, and how it all went bonkers
Escapes
Young Leaders, Algonquin Park, 1978
by Paul Watson
Our grade thirteen history class clique’s rite of passage
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Nature
Struck By Lightning
by Jill Frayne
It’s random and electric, and we are forever drawn to its deadly charms
Poetry
To Darwin in Chile, 1835
by John Reibetanz
You will learn to look on every city as Venice, stone lofted for a while as sun-draped statue before the tide grinds it to sand. Viewed through
Books
Post-Colonial Journeys
by Marian Botsford Fraser
In the age of the global citizen, travel literature is in crisis
Sightings
Summer Time
by Ken Alexander
A suggestion: It’s summer. Collapse into yourself. Remain where you are, with a good book in hand. That is,
Book Review
Southern Ocean Cruising
by Claire Hastings
Sailing south of 60 with explorers Sally and Jérôme Poncet
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Q & A: Photographer Joan Latchford
by The Walrus
An interview with Canadian photographer Joan Latchford.
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Vice, Vagabonds, and VD
by Crystal Luxmore
The skyrocketing popularity of hitchhiking during the sixties and seventies led to a generation of “modern nomads”
Escapes
The Getaway
by Michael Redhill
The operation is a success. Still covered in bandages and groggy from the drugs, they drive me on the smaller roads
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Tripping on the Trans-Can
by Crystal Luxmore and Joan Latchford
Canadian teenagers in the 1970s: an exclusive photo gallery.. » View Photo Gallery «
What's On CCTV?
Olympics Channel: Not Your Mother’s CCTV
by Mara Hvistendahl and Mitch Moxley
Amid violence and human rights controversies, China has taken over the world stage. Our bloggers Mara Hvistendahl and Mitch Moxley are watching the action
Travel
Treasure Islands
by Jon Turk and Jesse Marlow
Small pleasures and large truths in the South Pacific.. » View Photo Gallery «
Escapes
Summertime, When the Visigoths Go Pillaging
by Guy Gavriel Kay
Summer as a season for escape.
Memoir
Shelter From The Storm
by Don Gillmor
Fathers and sons, architecture as refuge, and a family’s great loss
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Collage Art
by Sergei Sviatchenko
For more art by Sviatchenko see “Shelter From The Storm”
Literature
Africa’s Latin Quarter
by Stephen Henighan
Despite bleak poverty, Mozambique’s multi-ethnic literary culture thrives
Imaginings
Loneliest Planet Europe
by Nicholas Hune Brown
Travel and heartbreak, on the perfect budget
Book Review
Siberian BAM Guide
by Alexandra Redgrave
How to “minimise vodka damage” on the Trans-Siberian trail
Book Review
Molvanîa: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry
by Jeremy Keehn
Skewering the Lonely Planet style
