Tim Cahill on what you can learn from your destination

“What’s always struck me as strange is that you read about these tragedies in which soldiers from one country, say England, crashed onto the shores of Hudson Bay and died — they froze to death, one after the other — in the midst of other people who have lived there for centuries. It would seem to me that those Englishmen might have thought, Wait a minute, this is the way you live here.