Travel Writing by John Zada | Articles and Features

A felucca boat on the Nile River in Egypt

When a River is a World

October 10, 2014

British travel writer Robert Twigger’s book ‘Red Nile’ explores the blood-soaked history of the world’s longest and perhaps most storied river.

Above the ice fields of the St. Elias Mountains in Kluane National Park, Yukon, Canada.

Adventure, Features, Travel

At Play in the Phantom Range

August 12, 2014

The Saint Elias Mountains harbour North America’s highest peaks including Canada’s greatest summit. They’re mecca for extreme explorers and mountaineer. So why do so few people know about them?

Dhow ships moored at the dhow wharfage, Dubai, UAE

Middle East, Travel

Dubai’s Dhow Wharfage

August 11, 2014

The futuristic city of Dubai, known for its glitzy sheen, also harbours a gritty old world port with ancient links to Arabia and South Asia.

A rocky landscape in the Badia region of the Eastern Desert of Jordan

Adventure, Features, Middle East, Travel

Jordan’s Eastern Desert Crossroads

August 9, 2014

Jordan’s remote Eastern Desert, a place where T.E. Lawrence once called home, is a surreal liminal zone of borderlands, extinct volcanoes, and bygone ruins at the crossroads of the Middle East.

Adventure, Features, Indigenous, Travel

Churchill: On Canada’s Arctic Edge

August 9, 2014

“You’re out here on as good a day as you’ll ever get,” shouts the guide as he throttles the engine of our inflatable boat, steering it towards the mouth of the river. Decked out in a wetsuit and snorkelling gear,…