You will learn about the critical connection between cultural change and global warming.
Inside an Explorer’s Arctic Journal | Delighted to be starting a six-part webinar series called Inside an Explorer’s Arctic Journal for my friends at Adventure Canada.Įpisode 1: “Circling the Midnight Sun” is based on his book by the same title, which will take you on a rollicking around the world at the Arctic Circle with Dr. “The kayak, the umiak, the big dugouts on the west coast are this incredible portal into the essence of the nation.” Listen to the Canadian Geographic’s Explorer Podcast “If you want to learn about this country called Canada, you need to have facility in a canoe,” he says. James Raffan has a long and impressive resume, but if you were to boil it down to a couple of words, you might describe him as a canoe evangelist. Read more Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast – Episode 8: James Raffan Recognized for his community activism and volunteerism, he is a Fellow International of the Explorers Club, Past Chair of the Arctic Institute of North America as well as a Fellow and Past Governor of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, service for which has been awarded many honours including Canada’s Meritorious Service Medal and an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Guelph.
And along the way, he has woven stories about the places he has travelled and the people he has met along the way into books and articles, films and television programs, blogs and radio documentaries, becoming a much sought after speaker, storyteller and public presenter.
In doing so, he has travelled to more parts of the country by more means of conveyance-from snowshoes and bare feet to skis, dog sleds, canoes, snowmobiles, sailboats and nuclear-powered icebreakers-than almost anyone else on the planet. About James Raffan In 2020, James was named by Canadian Geographic as one of the “90 most influential explorers in the nation’s recorded history.”Īs the son of Scottish midwife and an English Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy who emigrated to Canada in the early 50s (flipping a coin to decide if they would go west to Montreal or south to Johannesburg), James has spent his life exploring the country of which he is an accidental citizen.