- Point Me South
- Out On The Land
- Food Fight: Italy/Mexico/Japan

This issue features Out On The Land, survival and change on Nunavut’s frontier, New Zealand’s Stewart Island, plus Outpost goes on a bender, eating our way across the famous boot before dropping in on Oaxaca and Osaka.
FEATURES

30_POINT ME SOUTH
New Zealand’s Stewart Island - the overlooked sibling - is home to some of Australasia’s rarest creatures, both animal and human.

40_OUT ON THE LAND
The creation of Nunavut was heralded as a landmark agreement for aboriginal peoples. Five years later, climate, culture and politics are truly making Canada’s north one of the world’s most important frontiers.

53_FOOD FIGHT: Italy/Mexico/Japan
OUTPOST goes on a bender, eating our way across the famous boot before dropping in on Oaxaca and Osaka.

DEPARTMENTS

09_TRIPPING
Two Toronto architects go for a very, very long bike ride, from Inuvik to Tierra del Fuego.

10_LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
Nebal revisited and more

12_CULTURE
Serbian brass and David Byrne’s latest

14_OPEN LETTER
From Thailand’s tattoo festival

16_FIELD NOTES
With maritime archeologist James Delgado

20_DESTINATION
Les IIes de la Madeleine

24_OFF-THE-GRID
Solar power

28_SOFT MACHINE
THE SKEETER’S OTHER CURSE
Forget the Year of the Monkey, 2004 is shaping up to be the year of the mosquito, as dengue fever goes endemic

50_GOIN’ HARD
ROW, ROW, ROW YOUR BIKE
Fresh from his couch-bike expeditio, Brent Curry goes looking for a new challenge - how to combine cycling and canoeing.

70_WRIGHT OF WAY
WHAT’S THAT SMELL
For Ian Wright, there’s nothing quite like being taken for a ride

RESOURCES

62_BACKPACKERS BUZZ
Travel news and updates from Hostelling International Alberta and British Columbia