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  • The Big Thaw reviewed in the Globe and Mail

    Posted by Ed Struzik, 3 years ago

    This Saturday, the Globe and Mail ran a review of my book, The Big Thaw, alongside a review of the award-winning Arctic Front. Erling Friis-Baastad had this to say: "The Big Thaw: Travels in the Melting North is a good place to start when trying to understand how climate change is affecting life in the North, and Canadian responsibilities and sovereignty there."

    You can read the review for yourself here: www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/where-theres-a-will-theres-another-will/article1240381/

    • 1 person found this helpful

    Hear me on CBC's Quirks and Quarks!

    Posted by Ed Struzik, 3 years ago

    This past Saturday (June 27), CBC Radio broadcast my interview with Bob McDonald, host of Quirks and Quarks. If you missed it, don't worry; you can still catch the segment on the podcast, which you can download from iTunes, or from this link:
    www.cbc.ca/quirks/podcast.html

    • 4 people found this helpful

    Close Encounter with a Polar Bear: Part One

    Posted by Ed Struzik, 3 years ago

    Although The Big Thaw has 16 pages of photos, I took many pictures on my trips throughout the north that didn't make it into the book. Here are some pictures of a close encounter I had with a polar bear.

    Because I can't fit all the photos of this encounter into one post, you'll need to stay tuned to find out just what happens between the bear and me.

    • On the west coast of Hudson Bay, I take refuge in an equipment cage as one of a number of polar bears in the area pays a visit.

    • Weighing more than 450 pounds, this animal barely makes a sound as it walks along the gravel beach.

    • The bear slowly circles the cage once, never taking its eyes off me.

    • It then stops as it if to consider all of its options. Stay tuned...

    • For more pictures of my polar bear encounters, and stories about this iconic animal, read The Big Thaw.

    • 3 people found this helpful

    Video: Presentation at WWF-Canada

    Posted by Ed Struzik, 3 years ago

    During the book tour for The Big Thaw, I spoke at the WWF-Canada offices. Here's a short video clip of that presentation.

    • Presentation at WWF-Canada

    • A percentage of the revenue from sales of The Big Thaw will be donated to WWF-Canada.

    • 3 people found this helpful

    Exploring the last great frontier

    Posted by Ed Struzik, 3 years ago

    My interest in the Arctic began early on in life when I got into canoeing. For a while I thought I had found the perfect river in the Pukaskwa in northern Ontario. But that changed when I moved to Alberta and canoed the Bow, the Wild Hay, the Little Smokey and then the upper reaches of the Whirlpool in Jasper National Park.

    When I moved to the Yukon to take on a job in Kluane National Park, my definition of a perfect stream took on new meaning. There, I was mesmerized by the clear, icy waters of the Kathleen River flowing into a lovely lake that some people consider to be even more picturesque than Lake Louise in Banff. I caught my first Arctic greyling in that lovely stream, and nearly drowned trying to paddle its length. Kathleen also gave me the first untreated river water that I drank without fear of becoming ill.

    The allure of the Kathleen, however, eventually gave way to the Little Salmon, the Alsek, the Snake and other more remote rivers of the Yukon. And then I moved to the Northwest Territories where the Nahanni, the Burnside, the Thelon, and many other rivers I canoed forced me once again to redefine what it was I was searching for. The further north I went, it seemed, the closer I got to what it was I was searching for.

    It wasn’t just the sense of adventure, the thrill of standing in the middle of 50,000 migrating caribou, or calling out to loons and wolves and getting an answer back. It was also the realization that I was seeing the world the way aboriginal people and the first European explorers saw it before most of southern Canada got settled. As a I child, I had read many dry accounts of those journeys, but it was only after having retraced those trips that the stories really came to life.

    It was exhilarating following in the path of the great Dene chiefs; Matonabbee who guided British explorer Samuel Hearne down the Coppermine and Akaitcho, who led John Franklin down the Burnside. And it was sad to stand over the graves of John Hornby, Edgar Christian and Harold Adlard along the banks of the Thelon where the three slowly starved to death in 1927.

    Over time, the desire for adventure and my interest in Arctic history was eclipsed by my need to share my experiences with other people. So I started taking photographs and writing magazine articles. Most of those early pieces focused on the wonders of this world. But then as oil, gas and mining activities expanded their reach into this country, I realized how quickly it could all disappear. Now, as climate change threatens to bring catastrophic change to the Arctic, the tenor of my articles has become more urgent. Like the settlement of the West that brought an end to the prairie bison, the plains grizzly and all but a few pockets of antelope, the big thaw that is heating up in the Arctic could spell the end of this last great frontier of wilderness.

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