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Driven to Destruction

Posted on 06. Sep, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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Mike Vaughan and Jason Minvielle were in a remote section of eastern Turkey when they decided to stop for the night by the roadside. As they began erecting their tent, a tank and armoured personnel carrier pulled up. The tank aimed its cannon directly at the two Regina travellers. “Soldiers with machine guns jumped out [...]

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Flying Green

Posted on 04. Sep, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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Air travel has long been lambasted, particularly by environmental groups, for the amount of gas emissions that flights release into the atmosphere. A recent study for the European Commission found that aircraft travel currently causes from 3.5 to 7.4 percent of global warming emissions. However, there are predictions that this will rise to 15 per cent [...]

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Did You Know?

Posted on 27. Aug, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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Did you know that Canada possesses the world’s largest wildlife game sanctuary, or that mobster Al Capone once had a secret hideout located beneath the streets of Moose Jaw, or that Alberta boasts the world’s only official Flying Saucer Landing Pad? These are just a few of the surprising factoids that I discovered while perusing the [...]

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And the Beat Goes On

Posted on 20. Aug, 2008 by Kerry Banks.

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From time to time, travel publications such as National Geographic Traveller and Outside magazine publish lists of the greatest travel books of all time. Typically, these rankings include the exotic dispatches of Paul Theroux, Bruce Chatwin, Pico Iyer, Jonathan Raban and Wilfred Thesiger. Conspicuously absent from most of these lists is the travel book that [...]