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The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

Caroline Van Hemert · Little, Brown Spark
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Hope Jahren, Helen MacDonald, and Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's journey from Washington State to high above the Arctic Circle -- traveling across remote and rugged terrain solely by human power -- to rediscover birds, the natural world, and her own love...
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Horizon

Barry Lopez · Knopf
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

From the National Book Award-winning author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams, a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters--human, animal, and natural--that have shaped an extraordinary life.Taking us nearly from pole to pole--from modern...
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Dreaming in Turtle: A Journey Through the Passion, Profit, and Peril of Our Most Coveted Prehistoric Creatures

Peter Laufer · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating exploration into the world of turtles across the globe; Laufer charts the lore, love, and peril to a beloved species.Dreaming in Turtle is a compelling story of a stalwart animal prized from prehistory through to today -- an animal threatened by human greed, pragmatism, and rationalization....
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The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt

Randall Sullivan · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 396
Format: eBook

In 1795, a teenager discovered a mysterious circular depression in the ground on Oak Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada, and ignited rumors of buried treasure. Early excavators uncovered a clay-lined shaft containing layers of soil interspersed with wooden platforms, but when they reached a depth...
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Cooking in Iran: Regional Recipes and Kitchen Secrets

Najmieh Batmanglij · Mage Publishers
Pages: 728
Format: Hardcover

Najmieh Batmanglij was exiled from Iran 39 years ago. She was living in France where she did not speak the language or have proper documents and above all, she was pregnant. Out of a nostalgia and yearning to connect with her roots, she wrote her first cookbook, Food of Life, as a kind...
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Lonely Planet Korea

Lonely Planet · Lonely Planet
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet's Korea is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore the graceful Changdeokgung palace and horticultural idyll of Huwon,...
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100 Parks, 5,000 Ideas: Where to Go, When to Go, What to See, What to Do

Joe Yogerst · National Geographic
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Filled with helpful travel tips and beautiful National Geographic photography, this expert guide showcases the best experiences in the top national, state, and city parks throughout North America.In the sequel to the best-selling 50 States, 5,000 ideas, National Geographic turns to the United...
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The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas

ERIC RUTKOW · Scribner
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the brilliant award-winning author of American Canopy, a dazzling account of the epic quest to link North and South America with the world's longest road - the Pan American Highway - and how its construction and evolution reflected the divergent fates of North, Central, and South...
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The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas

Adrian Miller · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 261
Format: Hardcover

An NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work - Non Fiction James Beard award-winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential food service as chefs, personal cooks, butlers, stewards,and servers for every First...
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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

Suzy Hansen · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award * Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionNew York Times Book Review Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive"A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual...
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