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Armchair Travel October 2020
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| Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan JerkinsWhat it's about: Bestselling author Morgan Jerkins, who lives in New York and was raised in New Jersey, traveled to Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and California for insight as she thoughtfully explored how the Great Migration affected families, especially her own.
Read this next: For more on the Great Migration, which saw millions of African Americans leave the South between 1916 and 1970, pick up Isabel Wilkerson's award-winning history The Warmth of Other Suns; for another book combining family, travelogue, and modern African American history, try Candacy Taylor's Overground Railroad. |
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| The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy RobertsWhat's inside: This lyrical combination of history and travel book details British journalist Sophy Roberts' winter trips in Siberia via plane, train, snowmobile, reindeer, and more, in order to find pianos.
Why pianos? Siberia has hundreds of them -- even gulags sometimes had one -- and Roberts was determined to learn the story behind it all as she searched for a suitable piano for a brilliant Mongolian pianist friend.
Don't miss: Roberts spotting a tiger in the wild; intriguing illustrations; fascinating, detailed footnotes. |
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| The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric WeinerWhat happened: Popular author Eric Weiner (The Geography of Bliss) traveled by train all over the world to explore philosophy in the places associated with 14 of history’s great thinkers, including Epicurus, Socrates, Confucius, Shōnagon, Thoreau, Nietzsche, and Gandhi.
Why you might like it: Weiner engagingly shows how each philosopher's work provides advice for today via sections like "How to Walk Like Rousseau" and "How to Grow Old Like Beauvoir." |
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Owls of the eastern ice : a quest to find and save the world's largest owl
by Jonathan C. Slaght
A field conservationist tracks his five-year study of the elusive Blakiston’s fish owl of eastern Russia, where his small scientific monitoring team immersed themselves in local culture while learning about the species’ survival behaviors and shrinking habitat. 25,000 first printing. Illustrations. Maps. Index.
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October Feature: Cybersecurity Awareness Month |
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Cyberphobia : identity, trust, security and the Internet
by Edward Lucas
A senior editor at The Economist examines the catastrophic flaws in cybersecurity, which allows criminals to access and drain bank accounts and steal personal information and calls for stronger regulations and bold solutions.
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