George meets writer, conservationist and explorer John Hare, who crossed the Sahara riding a camel.
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I commissioned this carving by Damien Iquallaq for my film The Blinding Sea. It shows a shaman half-human and half-beluga,
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Our planet is a great blue spaceship, journeying through the universe. One of the benefits of the astronaut and cosmonaut
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I was fortunate to know Valentine Boss, a History professor at McGill University, for many years. As an undergraduate, I
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Continuing with the spectrum of experience…. We sometimes hear that language conditions what we see. This is one of the
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Language seems like a bridge between peoples, so why not make the effort to reach the other side? This question
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The other day, I mentioned the tundra zone, above treeline, which I periodically reach on hikes in New England and
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Spring is coming. Birds are congregating. The greyness of snow and ice is melting away. I am dreaming of mountain
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As the saying goes, “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” People sometimes act with the best of
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The other day, I watched a science-fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve, shot in Montreal and near Rimouski, called Arrival.
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My wife and I went for a drive the other day, looking for a picturesque village in the countryside, so
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What mythical places are worth dying for – or even worth killing for? The illustration at the top of this
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