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Armchair Travel April 2020
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The White Darkness
by David Grann
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon traces the South Pole expedition of a decorated British special forces officer, an admirer and descendant of Ernest Shackleton's expedition, who in 2015 risked his life to walk across Antarctica alone.
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Asphalt & Angels
by Christopher Blueman
A boy turns into a man during a dangerous road trip from Canada to Mexico on a small motorcycle with less than $100 in cash (including gas).
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Seven Sets of Horseshoes
by Lynn Lloyd
I rode a horse across the United States in 1973, accompanied by my dog Puddles. I traveled from Pennsylvania to California in seven months, recording each day’s events in my diary. I wrote the first draft of this manuscript in 1974. Thirty years later, with the invaluable help of my sister Carol, we crafted that draft into the following account of an experience that shaped my life forever after. Hope you enjoy it. Lynn Lloyd
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
by Robert Macfarlane
The award-winning author of The Old Ways presents an exploration of the planet's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory and geography, offering unsettling perspectives into whether or not humans are making the correct choices for Earth's future.
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Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren
A memoir by an award-winning paleobiologist traces her childhood in her father's laboratory, her longtime relationship with a colleague, and the remarkable discoveries they've made both in the lab and during extensive field research assignments.
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
by David Wallace-Wells
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast. Without a revolution in how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth could become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century. In his travelogue of our near future, David Wallace-Wells brings into stark relief the climate troubles that await--food shortages, refugee emergencies, and other crises that will reshape the globe.
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