Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America
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America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled
For writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, there are only so many Mary Oliver poems you can read about being free, and only so many times you can listen to Joni Mitchell’s travel album Hejira, before yo…
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Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT)—a combined distance …
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An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunti…
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A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mile trek.
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
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Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
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The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog
Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves—but park rangers killed the last of their kind in the 1920s. Decades later, the rangers brought them back, with the first wolves …
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Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
A historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a new understanding of human history
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Devil Is Fine
Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he has just inherited a plot of land from his estranged white grandfather. He travels to a beach town sev…
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The Shell Collector
The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr's acclaimed debut collection take readers from the African coast to the pine forests of Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical …
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On Trails: An Exploration
In 2009, while thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet: How do they form? Why do some improve over time while others fade? What makes u…
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Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
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From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand
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The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
From one of Outside magazine’s “Literary All-Stars” comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever, down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, during the l…
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