We are racing across flat scrub land, the drivers of a dozen SUVs playfully jockeying for the lead as we approach what look like mountains looming in the distance. These mountains, however, are not made of stone, but are rather the massive Erg Chigaga sand dunes of the Sahara desert.
About Dr. George Burden
George M. Burden is a freelance journalist who has been a member of the Travel Media Association of Canada for almost 15 years. George has served as a Regional Director of the Explorers Club and was recently designated a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. He is a past recipient of the Governor General's Medal and in 2014 succeeded his father as the 31st Baron of Seabegs, Stirlingshire, Scotland. George was appointed by Chief Peter Noel Lamont of Clan Lamont as his Canadian Commissioner in 2017. In July, 2018 he became the Clan's representative on the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs in Edinburgh. The Burdens have been a loyal branch of this clan for centuries.
George's publications to date have included flying in an F-18 aerial combat exercise and descending in both a Canadian naval SDL deep sea submersible and the Victoria class submarine, HMCS Windsor. He has also traveled to and written about all seven continents.
George has published articles on diseases depicted in ancient Egyptian art at the Cairo Museum and has done an analysis of the Edwin Smith Papyrus from a modern perspective. Medical history is also an interest of George and he has co-authored a book on this subject entitled Amazing Medical Stories, published by Goose Lane Editions/University of Toronto Press. He won 3 awards at the 2010 North American Travel Journalism Awards.
Gold - Category 143: Resorts - “Chilling Out at Quebec City's Le Chateau Entente”
(Published at Life As A Human on July 30th, 2010)
Silver - Category 128: Intergenerational and Family Travel - "Princess for a Day"
(Published at The Medical Post, April 6, 2010 Issue)
Bronze - Category 150: Cultural, Educational, Self-Improvement Travel - “Having a Ball, Vienna Style”
(Published at Life As A Human on June 12th, 2010)
George was also the recipient of the Travel Media Association of Canada's:
Choice Hotels Award of Excellence for Best Canadian Story-2005
Days Inn Canadian Family Travel Writing Award-2007
Christmas in Zanzibar
Hammams are found all over the Islamic world and are often very elaborate building featuring marble slabs where a bath attendant can scrub you with soapy mitts and varying levels of enthusiasm ranging from mildly stimulating to removing several layers of skin.
Finding the Fab Five in Kenya
The eeriest experience was watching the hyenas moving ghost-like, eyes glowing, encircling a cape buffalo and attempting to bring down her young calf. They had already picked off all the other calves in the course of their nocturnal stalking.
Eight Encounters with Serious Peril
My next self-destructive attempt involved chasing after a shark while diving on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia…
The New Rubicon
“In 49 BC Julius Caesar led the 13th Legion across a small river in northern Italy. This seemingly insignificant event heralded the end of a several hundred year old democracy…”
The Crown’s Perspective
As England’s longest ruling monarch, Elizabeth II has not seen the decline of the British Empire, but rather the fruition of a somewhat turbulent but ultimately well meaning nation’s efforts over more than a millennium.
The Reluctant Sniper
As he watched, the front line troops wavered in their advance. The communist officer pulled out a pistol and proceeded to coldly shoot several of his own men in the back.
Massacre
The mournful skirling of bagpipes sounds on the television for the vigil which marks the tragic death of 22 neighbours and friends. In Nova Scotia the death of 22 individuals marks us all. Few of us are more than two removes from someone who died or was bereaved by the dreadful murders that marred the peace of our province last weekend.
CORONAVIRUS: A Little Inspiration
Take heart that there have been worse contagious diseases than this one from which Canadians have gotten up, brushed themselves off and gone on with their lives.
How to Become a Ceann Tighe (Scottish Chieftain)
Chiefs traditionally ruled the clans, originally much as a native American tribal chief would do, as the steward of the territory held by his people.
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