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

Tripping on the Trans-Can

by Crystal Luxmore and Joan Latchford

Canadian teenagers in the 1970s: an exclusive photo gallery.

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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…[more]

Book Review

Southern Ocean Cruising

by Claire Hastings

Sailing south of 60 with explorers Sally and Jérôme Poncet…[more]

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The Eagle Has Landed

by J.M. Kearns

Two operatives seize the road: The alternate universe of Cheney and Bush…[more]

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…[more]

Letters

Summer Letters

by The Walrus Readers

On the surveillance society, media, and think tanks…[more]

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…[more]

Book Review

Molvanîa: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry

by Jeremy Keehn

Skewering the Lonely Planet style…[more]

Escapes

Summertime, When the Visigoths Go Pillaging

by Guy Gavriel Kay

Summer as a season for escape.…[more]

Online Exclusive

Collage Art

by Sergei Sviatchenko

For more art by Sviatchenko see “Shelter From The Storm” …[more]

Books

Post-Colonial Journeys

by Marian Botsford Fraser

In the age of the global citizen, travel literature is in crisis…[more]

Literature

Africa’s Latin Quarter

by Stephen Henighan

Despite bleak poverty, Mozambique’s multi-ethnic literary culture thrives…[more]

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,…[more]

Travel

Treasure Islands

by Jon Turk and Jesse Marlow

Small pleasures and large truths in the South Pacific.. » View Photo Gallery «

Escapes

No Escape, Not Even to Kyoto

by Pico Iyer

There’s no escaping anything in life. Fly all the way to Tahiti or the Himalayas, and what you’ll find…[more]

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…[more]