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2017

15 books

No. 0076 field guide · No fixed address

Explorers’ Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure

Huw Lewis-Jones

Before cameras, if you wanted to bring back what you saw, you drew it. Lewis-Jones and Herbert — he’s a polar guide and historian, she’s the daughter of the explorer Wally Herbert — pulled together seventy sketchbooks kept in the…

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No. 0033 adventure · Alaska

To the Bright Edge of the World

Eowyn Ivey

In 1885, shortly after the Alaska Purchase from Russia and before the gold rush, the U.S. Army’s Lieutenant Henry T. Allen was ordered on a 1,200-mile expedition to map the Copper and Tanana rivers of Alaska’s interior. Little was known…

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No. 0006 Memoir · No fixed address

All Our Waves Are Water

Jaimal Yogis

Yogis follows Saltwater Buddha here, picking up in his early twenties with a broken heart and no direction. He goes to a monastery in Dharamsala and meets Sonam, a Tibetan refugee, and hatches a half-baked plan to get him to…

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