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| A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland
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Rebecca Solnit.
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| Publisher: Verso. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781844677085. Daedalus Item Code: 32046 |
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| In this "brilliant meditation on travel" (NYTimes), Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. She portrays in microcosm a history made of great ... (Read More)
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| Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage That Redrew the Map of the New World
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Douglas Hunter.
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781596916807. Daedalus Item Code: 31899 |
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| The year 2009 marked the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the majestic river that bears his name. Commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to find a northeastern passage over ... (Read More)
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| Long Way Home: In Search of Steinbeck's America
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Bill Barich.
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| Publisher: Walker. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780802717542. Daedalus Item Code: 31913 |
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| "We do not take a trip; a trip takes us," John Steinbeck noted in his 1962 classic Travels with Charley. Inspired by a copy of Travels that he stumbled upon in Ireland, where he had ... (Read More)
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| Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane
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Ken McGoogan.
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| Publisher: Counterpoint. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781582434407. Daedalus Item Code: 32397 |
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| "[Ken] McGoogan [author of Fatal Passage and Lady Franklin's Revenge] frames this exciting biography in terms of the mythological concepts of the hero and the transformative quest. ... (Read More)
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| Walking Zero: Discovering Cosmic Space and Time Along the Prime Meridian
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Chet Raymo.
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| Publisher: Walker. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780802714947. Daedalus Item Code: 31928 |
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| As he did in An Intimate Look at the Night Sky and The Path, astronomer and physicist Chet Raymo makes this exploration of the prime meridian—the line of zero longitude and the standard ... (Read More)
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