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Armchair Travel December 2021
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Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide
by Cecily Wong and Dylan Thuras
A friendly, fascinating tour of some the world’s most amazing foods -- from seven continents and 120+ countries -- featuring historical and cultural information plus colorful illustrations, all put together by the ever-curious Atlas Obscura team. Foods include: Scotland's Irn-Bru drink; Afghanistan's Mended Teapot Soup; North Carolina Whole Hog Barbecue; Chilean beer made from fog; Germany's famous Spaghetti Ice-Cream Sundae.
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Shackleton - A Biography
by Ranulph Fiennes
Discover the story Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .
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The Whisper on the Night Wind : The True History of a Wilderness Legend
by Adam Shoalts
A century ago, Traverspine stood near the foothills of the remote Mealy Mountains in central Labrador. Today it is an abandoned ghost town, In the early 1900s, this isolated little settlement was the scene of an extraordinary haunting by large creatures none could identify. Adam Shoalts, decorated modern-day explorer and an expert on wilderness folklore, picks up the trail from a century ago and sets off into the Labrador wild to investigate the tale.
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