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...millions of French travelers now heading off to summer-vacation destinations across the globe. Will this move them to improve behavior the poll characterized as impolite, prone to loud carping and inattentive to local customs? If so, that's just the start: the study also describes the voyageur français as often unwilling or unable to communicate in foreign languages, and particularly disinclined to spend money when they don't have to - including those non compris tips. Overall, French travelers landed 19th out of 21 nations worldwide, far behind the first-place Japanese, considered the most polite, quiet...
...Lake Superior will be gone, and its islands will be wooded buttes rising above the fertile coulees of the basin. A river will run through it, the Riviera River, and great glittering casinos like the Corn Palace, the Voyageur, the Big Kawishiwi, the Tamarack Sands, the Clair de Loon, the Sileaux, the Garage Mahal, the Glacial Sands, the Temple of Denture, the Golden Mukooda will lie across the basin like diamonds in a dish. Family-style casinos, with theme parks and sensational water rides on the rivers cascading over the north rim, plus high-rise hotels and time-share condominiums...
...story of those remarkable summers is told in a pair of picture-filled books to be published this month: Mech's The Arctic Wolf: Living with the Pack (Voyageur Press; $24.95) and Brandenburg's White Wolf: Living with an Arctic Legend (NorthWord Press; $40). Later this fall Brandenburg's film documentary of the second expedition will air as a National Geographic TV special. These portraits of the Arctic wolf will surprise many readers and viewers. For all its vaunted prowess as a fierce predator, the wolf leads a tough life and relies on complex social behavior to survive...
Reporting on his travels, Voyageur Frimbo rails-so to speak-against what he calls "infernal combustion...
Trudeau embraces the Greek notion of developing both the mind and the body to perfection. In the tradition of the Canadian voyageur, his idea of relaxation is to climb a mountain, go skiing or snowshoeing, paddle and portage his canoe, or just drive out into the country and go exploring in the woods. He has a pilot's license, a brown belt in judo. Sometimes, during a dinner at a friend's house, he will excuse himself and stand on his head in the corner for five minutes. Exuberantly boyish, he likes to slide down banisters or vault...