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John H. Vaillant is a journalist and nonfiction writer and journalist who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has lived in Vancouver for the past thirteen years.
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Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929

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Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy.

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He realised that in a town a man cannot live as he wishes, but as other people wish.

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Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.

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(..)Fate has al­ways been a po­tent force in Rus­sia, where, for gen­er­ations, cit­izens have had lit­tle con­trol over their own des­tinies. Fate can be a bitch, but, as Za­it­sev, Dvornik, and Onofre­cuk had dis­cov­ered, it can al­...

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Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cow­ardice is [..].

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Since well before the Kung's engine noise first penetrated the forest, a conversation of sorts has been unfolding in this lonesome hollow. It is not a language like Russian or Chinese but it is a language nonetheless, and it is older than the forest....

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Author Bio

  • NameJohn Vaillant
  • DescriptionCanadian journalist and nonfiction writer
  • AliasesJohn H. Vaillant
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer