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DVD and Book Reviews
Jan 7th
When British adventurer Ed Wardle fulfilled a lifetime’s ambition by being left to fend for himself for three months in wilds of Yukon, the resultant TV show on the UK’s channel 4 and National Geographic channels (backed by Twitter and live blogs) proved something of a fiasco. Wardle cracked up, nearly starved, and was brought home after 50 days… Some, however, get on better with the Canadian wilderness. We review a couple of examples…
Northern Wilderness
The latest exploits of the remarkable Ray Mears
The book of survivalist Ray Mears’s journey through Canada’s vast northern landscapes tells the story of the fur trade, More >
Review – Five Fishermen
Dec 23rd
The Five Fishermen Restaurant in downtown Halifax
There was a nervous sense of anticipation in the air in downtown Halifax the night we ate at the Five Fishermen. I’m tempted to say the famous Five Fishermen, because anyone who has visited Nova Scotia’s boisterous port and capital city seems to ask, “did you eat there?”.
The anticipation, though, was not just about the promise of fine food. This was the eve of the predicted landfall of Hurricane, an interloper from the Caribbean that had raged up North America’s eastern seaboard for a week.
Yet right now the evening air was warm and still More >
