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The Red Planet
Mars is a planet that has not only inspired the imagination through literature, history, and cinema it has been one of the main preoccupations of explorers throughout time, to go…
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Borderlines
Any book that has me engaged and laughing in the first few pages is a book I know I’m going to enjoy, and Borderlines fulfilled its purpose to educate, enlighten…
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Letters From Egypt
In 1862, after contracting Tuberculosis, Lucie Duff Gordon’s travelled to Egypt, not just seeking adventure but hoping to improve her dwindling health. Her Letters from Egypt are not just random…
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Heavy Time
I’ve been reading a few bits and pieces about psychogeography lately and with my own academic interest in Religious History then Heavy Time, by Sonia Overall seemed the very book…
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Gone: A search for what remains of the world’s extinct creatures
Climate Change and talk of a Sixth Extinction seem to be ever-present in our newsfeeds these days, “Winter's getting warmer, the ice-caps are melting” as musician Julian Cope once sang…
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Forgotten Footprints
In humankind’s history there have been many ages of discovery, but few that surmise the arduousness and strength of human endurance than Antarctica. Yet Antarctica, much as the race to…
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Cut Stones & Crossroads
Although originally published in 1984 Cut Stones & Crossroads by Ronald Wright simply remains the pinnacle of any travel writing on Peru. Weaving the country’s rich and diverse culture and…
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Fifty Words For Snow
In Fifty Words for Snow, Nancy Campbell continues her work on the “changing landscape of the Arctic” and gifts us not only with the perfect Christmas present but a book…
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Unofficial Britain
I wasn’t aware of Garth E. Rees and the website Unofficial Britain until only recently. In Unofficial Britain: Journeys Through Forgotten Places, Rees explores the unknown narrative of our modern-day…