On a naked limestone pebble iced over with a thin glaze of glacial till, gravel and mud squatting between Greenland and Ellesmere Island—an Arctic afterthought known as Hans Island—Canada and Denmark once waged the most polite war in human history. A slapfight so gentle it could’ve been refereed by a librarian. It wasn’t over oil, […]
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Troy Nahumko is an award-winning author currently based in Spain. His recent book, Stories Left in Stone, Trails and Traces in Cáceres, Spain was published with the University of Alberta Press. As a writer and photographer he has contributed to newspapers and media such as The Globe and Mail, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Toronto Star, The Irish World, The Straits Times, Lonely Planet, Khaleej Times, DW-World, El País, SUR in English and HOY.