Canada is not a place that turns up regularly in the poetry, novels, plays or non-fiction memoirs of other cultures. Maybe that is because when foreign writers come here they tend to have immigration on their minds rather than tourism. Once they settle within our vast borders, we embrace them pretty quickly as Canadian authors, even if their palette is Mumbai rather than…
John Geiger
John Geiger is the author of The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible (Weinstein Books, 2009) and Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (with Owen Beattie; Western Producer Prairie Books, 1987). He is president of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and editorial board editor for The Globe and Mail.
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John Geiger
When Britannia Ruled the Slopes
Long before Hillary, waves of Englishmen dared the famous ascent December 2011
Wade Davis’s Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest is a departure for the explorer-writer. A Harvard-trained ethnobotanist, Davis began his career as a plant explorer before his investigations into folk preparations linked to the creation of zombies in Haiti resulted in his bestselling The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist’s Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian …