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Armchair Travel December 2020
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The outlaw ocean : journeys across the last untamed frontier
by Ian Urbina
A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative reporter profiles the rampant criminal and exploitative activities of the world’s unmonitored ocean regions, uncovering a vast global network of industry corruption, piracy and trafficking. Illustrations.
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Time song : journeys in search of a submerged land
by Julia Blackburn
Blends travelogue and history in a lyrical exploration of Doggerland, once connected to Britain, that draws on myriad disciplines to explore its human settlements and rich ecosystem before it was subsumed by the North Sea 6,000 years ago. Illustrations.
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Grand : a memoir
by Sara Carole Schaefer
Why you might like it: For fans of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress and Let's Pretend This Never Happened, comedian and Emmy Award-winning writer Sara Schaefer's hilariously honest memoir follows Sara's trip through the Grand Canyon with her sister that causes her to reflect on her childhood and the scandal that changed her family forever.
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The immeasurable world : journeys in desert places
by William Atkins
What it is: The author of The Moor recounts his travels through eight of the world's most extreme deserts, including the Gobi Desert and the Great Victoria Desert, in a literary tribute to their cultural relevance and timeless, forbidding allure.
Reviewers say: "William Atkins is an erudite writer with a wonderful wit and gaze and this is a new and exciting beast of a travel book."--Joy Williams
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| Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey through Every National Park by Conor KnightonThe impetus: his fiancée unexpectedly called things off (and then got engaged to her co-worker), leaving him at a crossroads.
What it is: a thematically arranged (Animals, God, Ice, Love, People, etc.), personal look at 59 U.S. national parks over the course of a year.
Did you know? As part of a video series on the National Park Service's 100th anniversary in 2016, the author, a CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, also did TV segments at several of the locations he visited. |
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Feast by firelight : simple recipes for camping, cabins, and the great outdoors
by Emma Frisch
What it is: Feast by Firelight offers solution-oriented recipes that make cooking outdoors feel effortless and downright fun and it shows how to utilize clever cooking methods, prep food at home, and pack smart.
Reviewers say: "Beautifully illustrated, with welcome extras such as lists of recommended equipment, tips for efficiently packing your coolers, and engaging headnotes accompanying each recipe, this terrific resource will inspire outdoors enthusiasts who want to add flavor and flair to their camp meals." Christopher Myers, Library Journal.
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| Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary OliverWhat's inside: a lyrical collection of essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, who died in 2019, that describes her lifelong wanderings in nature and how it inspired her creatively.
Why you might like it: Oliver contemplates artistic labor, observation, and great thinkers and writers of the past.
Want a taste? "I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple." |
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