November 2007:
The Arctic
"Even when you go to a place you thought was empty, there is always something that tells you that people were there."
-- Ipiak, an Aivilingmiut Inuit from Nunavut
November 2007:
The Arctic
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.
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
Politics
Sovereignty from the North
by Mary Simon
An Inuit leader says Canada is asleep at the post in the Arctic
More Stories in this issue
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by Jared Bland and Paul Isaacs
Full disclosure of kilometres traveled by Our Writer in the duty of Honest Research.
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
Science
Linnaeus Canadensis
by Nancy Pick
Almost 300 years ago, the great Swedish naturalist sent an acolyte to discover Canada’s flora and fauna
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
Art
“Scary Dream”
by Suvinai Ashoona
Vivid nightmare vision from Cape Dorset artist. » View Photo Gallery «
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
Online Exclusive
Portraits of Inuit Artists
by John Reeves
Photographer and Arctic enthusiast John Reeves first made pictures in Cape Dorset almost 50 years ago. A committed. » View Photo Gallery «
Memoir
Through Darkness and Light
by Andy Kirkpatrick
Exhuming the ghosts of war in England and Greenland
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 «
National Magazine Award Nominee
The Archetypal Walrus
by John Vaillant
Reflections on robbing the dead. NMA nominee: Best Short Feature
Photo Essay
Growing Up in Cambridge Bay
by Finn O’Hara
A Walrus Online Exclusive: Click » View Photo Gallery «
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.
National Magazine Award Nominee
Camels in the Arctic?
by Franklyn Griffiths
Climate change as the Inuit see it: “From the inside out.” NMA nominee: Politics and Public Interest
Field Notes
Pan Handling
by Jonathan Garfinkel & Medeine Tribinevicius
Going for gold the old-fashioned way
