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Sorry

While in Victoria, I overheard a range of sentiment about the American election: everything from "they didn't deserve their republic" to "this opens up great opportunity, let's recruit doctors and nurses over the border" and "we'd better prepare now for the economic hit Canada is going to take." [...]

Place

Literature of place has been with us forever, from the heroic journeys there and back again (think Homer and [...]

Reads

Rather than muse about the hot summer, I thought I’d post this exciting news about the success of a [...]

Summer

This summer day will burn hot, here and around the hemisphere. Last night the evening air chilled enough that [...]

Finish

The heartbreaking 2016 Antarctic crossing of Henry Worsley, who came within 126 miles of his goal, recently [...]

Lovely

Ed Abbey had joined a Colorado River trip I'd guided in summer 1975, soon after he'd written The Monkey Wrench Gang (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1975). The book was about to hit the shelves and would become a literary and cultural phenomenon. He didn't reveal anything about the Gang, and we didn't ask, but as we floated Cataract, he'd already orchestrated the lives and acts of Hayduke and Seldom Seen and Bonnie and Doc. [...]