Friday, March 13, 2009

Explore magazine gets a glowing mention

I don't know how it came about but explore magazine got a major (and well-deserved) plug in an article by Vancouver writer Bruce Grierson on the website of the Canadian Tourism Commission.

The story appears on its media centre page (a place where they try to interest various media in writing and broadcasting about Canada) and says, in part:
There’s a whole, life-altering world out there beyond the grid, and you could argue that the wild outdoors is still the natural habitat of Canadians. If that’s true, then our true operating manual has gotta be explore magazine...I think editor James Little’s stroke of genius is figuring out that while, yes, the outdoors may be our natural habitat, too many of us spend too much time sitting at a desk looking at it through double-glazed windows. So there’s a Walter Mitty-ish itch the magazine scratches. Few of us will be marathon swimming or cave diving or climbing the Grand Wall of the Stawamus Chief anytime soon. But the tone of the writers who did do those things is so inviting, it sucks us in, infects us with the spirit of the Canadian outdoors.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that Grierson has a feature in the current issue! Ya think?!

(See http://explore-mag.com/issue, where you'll find the blurb:

"A Wing and a Prayer: So maybe Richard Synergy’s attempts at human-powered flight haven’t yet taken off. But at least he’s failed beautifully.
By Bruce Grierson"

Talk about shameless plugging...

9:20 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Explore has excellent art direction.

1:27 pm  

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