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Armchair Travel February 2021
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We Are Displaced: my journey and stories from refugee girls around the world
by Malala Yousafzai
"Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement-- first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere in the world except to the home she loved. In We Are Displaced, which is part memoir, part communal storytelling, Malala not only explores her own story, but she also shares the personal stories of some of the incredible girls she has met on her journeys-- girls who have lost their community, relatives, and often the only world they've ever known. In a time of immigration crises, war, and border conflicts, We Are Displaced is an important reminder from one of the world's most prominent young activists that every single one of the 68.5 million currently displaced is a person-- often a young person-- with hopes and dreams."
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Polar Explorer
by Jade Hameister
The author describes her early love of exploring and chronicles how she became the youngest person to complete the Polar Hat Trick, three expeditions to the North Pole, South Pole, and across the Greenland ice sheets
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| The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War by John "Chick" Donohue and J.T. MolloyThe challenge: In a New York City neighborhood bar in 1967, U.S. Marine Corps veteran-turned-merchant mariner John "Chick" Donohue agreed to sneak into Vietnam, track down local friends at war, and share beers from home.
What happened: He did it! But witnessing shocking events like the Tet offensive changed him, and his thoughts about the war.
Reviewers say: "fascinating, vividly narrated" (Publishers Weekly); "an irreverent yet thoughtful macho adventure" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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| Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is by Gretel EhrlichWhat it is: A follow-up to the acclaimed 1985 book The Solace of Open Spaces, this poetic memoir details Gretel Ehrlich's meditative observations about her ranch in Wyoming and the places she's visited, including California, Greenland, Japan, Sweden, and Zimbabwe.
What's inside: Ehrlich thoughtfully contemplates ranch life, grief and loss, animals and nature, climate change, and more.
Reviewers say: "Erlich’s memories, rendered in rich, lyrical language, make for a moving ode to a changing planet" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way... by Dan KoisWhat it's about: A dad humorously details the year his stressed Northern Virginia family gave up regular life for three months each in New Zealand, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, and small-town Kansas.
The family: journalist and podcast host Dan, lawyer Alia, and their daughters, 11-year-old Lyra and nine-year-old Harper.
Read this next: For a more nature-inspired family travel memoir, try Michael Lanza's Before They're Gone. |
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| A Year in Provence by Peter MayleWhat it is: a classic travelogue first published in 1989 by English writer Peter Mayle, who vividly describes his and his wife's experiences after they moved into a 200-year-old French farmhouse with a vineyard
What's inside: In chapters named after the months of the year, Mayle offers humorous and keen observations on expatriate life, locals, and the culture of Provence as well as mouthwatering descriptions of food.
Read this next: other books by Mayle; Duck Season by David McAninch; Dirt by Bill Buford; Carol Drinkwater's The Olive Farm; John Baxter's A Year in Paris; L'Appart by David Lebovitz. |
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Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
by Scott Kelly
An illustrated memoir by the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station shares candid reminiscences of his voyage, his colorful formative years and the off-planet journeys that shaped his early career.
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| The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen RussellWhat it's about: Moving to Denmark for her husband's new job with Lego, English journalist Helen Russell chronicles their first year in the country that's statistically the happiest on Earth, pondering what makes the Danish so content.
Who it's for: those who want a chatty look at life in Denmark or those who'd enjoy a lighthearted look at a British expat abroad.
Read this next: Michael Booth's The Almost Nearly Perfect People, an enjoyable travelogue covering all the Scandinavian countries. |
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