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…we’re heading north. We guide you on a Great Escape through northern Thailand, encountering lost cities, barbecued sausages, whooping gibbons and longtail boat rides past shining temples (p49). And we head just about as far north as it’s possible to go, to the Canadian Arctic town of Churchill, with Halloween approaching and polar bears circling ever closer (p66). These very different experiences star on this month’s pair of covers. A statue of Buddha watches over the ruins of Sukhothai on the magazine you’ll fnd in shops (left), while subscribers receive a collectable, simplifed version (right) – one that from now on will be greatly varied in its image choice, and with a few surprises included. As you’ll see, our subject this issue has a fearsome appetite, and leaves strangely human footprints.