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No. 21 : Winter/Spring 2008

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Searching within the Archipelago
by Steve Kahn
Photos by John Hohl

It was never about the killing. I was drawn to any occupation that would allow me to place my boot in the track of a brown bear, listen to the bellowing of rutting moose, or curl up at four thousand feet in a shallow depression still pungent with the aroma of sheep.

St. Francis and the Isle of Foula
by Lynne Shapiro

Every so often my thoughts turn to Foula, strange Foula, where St. Francis — patron saint of birds — visited me, though I didn’t recognize him at the time.

Navajo Women: Doorway Between Traditional and Modern Life
by Betty Reid
Photos by Kenji Kawano

Those words sealed Goldtooth’s fate to pursue a profession rare among Navajo women. She has become a medicine woman. They call her Hataałi Bitsií lichíí’, the Medicine Woman with the Red Hair.

Land and Money, by William R. Stimson. Land and Money
by William R. Stimson

Until a few days back I’d never even heard of the dragon boat holiday and was still struggling to understand why a whole nation would celebrate the day some poet in ancient times committed suicide by jumping into a river.

My Farmhouse in Japan: A Breakfast to Remember
by John Roderick

Though I plainly saw how they felt, I could not believe that the Takishitas seriously thought I would want such a monstrously big, obviously unheatable, and darkly repelling structure as my home.

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