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Life Lessons From the Amazon—A Guide to Life From One Epic Jungle Adventure: Pip Stewart
Published by Sommersdale, 2021, 335 pages Pip Stewart and two of her friends spent nearly three months in the wilderness in Guyana, hiking through the rainforest to the source of the Essequibo River and then kayaking the 1,014 kilometres of… Continue reading
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Bicycling with Butterflies—My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration: Sara Dykman
Published by Timber Press, 2021, 280 pages “Beyond my footsteps, mahogany-colored clumps dripped from branches of scattered trees. They shimmered in the sparse light, nearly indistinguishable from the tree trunks and pine needles. … Millions of monarch butterflies… Millions—clinging to… Continue reading
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Wanderland—A Search for Magic in the Landscape: Jini Reddy
Published by Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2020, 272 pages “I was…sick of the anxiety. This was no way to live, I realized if I wanted to hang on to my sanity. It was time to just do the thing that I secretly… Continue reading
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Findings: Kathleen Jamie
Published by Graywolf Press, 2007, 190 pages I first read Findings during the Covid pandemic. It was a perfect book at a time when most of us had put our long-distance trips on hold and were instead taking our holidays closer… Continue reading
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This Cold Heaven—Seven Seasons in Greenland: Gretel Ehrlich
Published by Vintage Books, 2001, 377 pages Greta Ehrich visited Greenland in the early 1990s. That was the first of many trips, as she fell under the spell of the place and its people. “My first trip to Greenland was… Continue reading
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Tigers in Red Weather: Ruth Padel
Published by Little, Brown / Abacus, 2005, 448 pages This is a travel book with a difference: it is also a call for the conservation of wildlife ⎯ tigers in particular ⎯ and wild spaces. Ruth Padel is a single… Continue reading
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