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Mahmoud Marai
Located off a busy Cairo square, in the bucolic and tree-lined district of Maadi, is a small basement-level office space. At first glance, the room looks no different than most of the dusty and...
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Muhammed al-Idrisi
Muhammed “al-Sharif” al-Idrisi (c. 1100-1165) was a major Muslim scholar, geographer and mapmaker of the medieval Islamic period. He was born in the town of Ceuta, in Morocco, and was descended from a...
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The Life and Times of Piri Re’is
A Piri Re’is map depicting the coasts of Beirut and Tripoli. Ahmed Muhiddin Piri Re’is (1475-1544) was an Ottoman mariner and mapmaker whose rise to prominence paralleled the ascending fortunes of the...
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Open Air Books and Maps
For decades a small indie bookstore has been operating, virtually in secret, beneath the corporate hustle of Toronto’s downtown core. “Open Air Books and Maps” is a quirky and clandestine establishment...
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Review: ‘Godhead: The Brain’s Big Bang’
Three questions sum up the fundamental quandary for scientists working in biology and cosmology today. Where did the information that made matter possible come from? How did life arise out of...
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Liddle on Kluane National Park
BRENT LIDDLE, a wilderness guide from Haines Junction, Yukon has spent over three decades exploring one of the most remote corners of North America. Between 1975 and 2002 he served as an interpretive...
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Egypt’s Terra Incognita
We tend to associate foreign lands that are unfamiliar to us with their most enduring, and sometimes cliché, symbols. No region is more prone to this conundrum of perception than the Middle East – and...
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Adelard of Bath
While he was a young man studying at the famed French cathedral school of Tours, Adelard of Bath, an 12th century Englishman of noble lineage, underwent a life changing experience. Following a lesson...
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In Search of the Elusive Apeman of the Great Bear Rainforest
ONE’S FIRST bird’s-eye-view of the Great Bear Rainforest, a rugged landscape of mossy green foliage and ocean, often comes during those rarified days of summer in which the world’s most impenetrable...
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Auld on Circumskiing Mount Logan
Last spring I spent a week with a group of mountaineers at a remote glacier camp in Yukon’s St. Elias Range near the base of Mount Logan, Canada’s highest peak. Sometimes referred to as “Canada’s...
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Adnan Khan on the Rickshaw Circus
Canadian journalist, and friend, Adnan Khan, has been covering South Asia and Middle East for over a decade. When not traipsing around Turkey, his home turf, the Maclean’s correspondent can usually be...
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