Posts Tagged ‘arctic’
Sailing Out of the Northwest Passage launches Dead Reckoning
More Dead Reckoning events are in the works. But at this point, Our Hero is sailing with Adventure Canada Out of the Northwest Passage from Sept. 7 to 23. After that, the confirmed schedule looks like this: Sept. 27: Toronto: Ben McNally Oct. 1: Stratford Writers’ Festival Oct. 14, 15: Calgary Wordfest Oct. 17: Victoria:…
Read MoreJohn Rae Centre will celebrate Orkney, the Arctic, and the Inuit
I do love this image created by Orcadian photographer James Grieve. He has combined photos of the Stromness statue of explorer John Rae and the Hall of Clestrain, where Rae was born in 1813. Having visited the Hall a few times over the years, I still most vividly remember the first time, in 1998, when…
Read More‘Franklinistas’ are surfing an Arctic tsunami
KEN MCGOOGAN Special to The Globe and Mail Published Saturday, Mar. 18, 2017 Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition, by Paul Watson. M&S, Penguin Random House, 384 pages, $34.95. Minds of Winter, by Ed O’Loughlin. House of Anansi, 481 pages, $22.95. The headline is telegraphic: “How quest for Northwest Passage turned into…
Read MoreCelebrating Farley Mowat at his boat-roofed house
To kilt up or go Arctic. That’s the dilemma I face. It’s prompted by the moving of the Farley Mowat boat-roofed house in Port Hope. Come October, an international crew of professional stone-wallers will arrive in that town, 100 km east of Toronto. They will dismantle and then reassemble the boat house, placing it at…
Read MoreWho owns the Arctic?
Meanwhile, at the Globe and Mail, we find a review of Who Owns the Arctic? Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North, by Michael Byers, Douglas & McIntyre, 147 pages, $22.95 Reviewed by Ken McGoogan Published on Monday, Jan. 18, 2010 For Arctic explorers seeking to enter the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic, one of the…
Read MorePolar Sea video draws on latest voyage
So here it is, my first YouTube video. It’s called Polar Sea, which is short for Race to the Polar Sea, and it draws on my latest Arctic voyage with Adventure Canada. We sailed north towards the Pole in the wake of Elisha Kent Kane, but didn’t get as far as he did. We didn’t…
Read MoreSlouching towards a cyber-presence. . .
I have been remiss. I have neglected to post links. And links, I am told, are the very stuff of a cyber-presence. So here’s me at a Polar Bear Swim. . . Here’s me rambling around Scotland. . . which adventure contributed to a book (How the Scots Invented Canada). And here’s me SIMULTANEOUSLY in…
Read MoreChasing Kane to the High Arctic
So, two clips have turned up in Cyberspace as a result of our most recent Arctic voyage with Adventure Canada. The first is more tell than show, and vice versa, but hey, together they contribute to the requisite fifteen minutes of fame . . . one is at http://globeandmail.com/books, the other at http://savvyreader.typepad.com . .…
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