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Armchair Travel December 2021 |
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For your convenience, beginning in January we will be consolidating our newsletters into one, all-encompassing newsletter. Suggestions from each individual genre will now be included in the new newsletter format on a rotating basis. The separate newsletters for these genres are now discontinued. |
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| Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of... by Andrés ReséndezWhat's inside: the vivid story of how in 1564-1565, the Spanish sent four ships from a secret port in Mexico hoping they could cross the Pacific and return, something that had never been achieved.
Why you might like it: Though history had forgotten him, this book centers around Lope Martín, an Afro-Portuguese ship's pilot who battled mutiny, terrible storms, and more, to make history after his ship made it back first.
Reviewers say: "a rip-roaring maritime adventure" (Publishers Weekly); "enlightening and exciting" (Booklist). |
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| In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain by Tom VitaleWhat it is: a vivid, moving memoir about what it was like working with beloved chef/writer/TV host Anthony Bourdain, by his long-time director and producer, who found himself unmoored by Bourdain's death.
Why you might like it: Debut author Tom Vitale offers a candid, compelling look at Bourdain and their wild experiences shooting his popular TV shows in some of the most volatile regions in the world
Want a taste? "Each two-week shoot contained a lifetime's worth of adventures, and there'd been so many trips, I'd lost count." |
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| Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide by Cecily Wong and Dylan ThurasWhat's inside: a friendly, fascinating tour of some the world’s most amazing foods -- from seven continents and 120+ countries -- featuring historical and cultural information plus colorful illustrations, all put together by the ever-curious Atlas Obscura team.
Foods include: Scotland's Irn-Bru drink; Afghanistan's Mended Teapot Soup; North Carolina Whole Hog Barbecue; Chilean beer made from fog; Germany's famous Spaghetti Ice-Cream Sundae.
Locations include: Verdansky Station in Antarctica; Austria's Starkenberger Beer Pools; Libya's 12th-century Granary Fortress; Georgia's Lunch Box Museum. |
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| The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free by Paulina BrenWhat it is: an engrossing social history of Manhattan's groundbreaking Barbizon, a 700-room residential hotel that was women-only from 1928-1981, as well as a look at some of those who called it home.
Residents included: Rita Hayworth, Joan Crawford, Molly Brown, Sylvia Plath, Joan Didion, Meg Wolitzer, Betsey Johnson, and Liza Minelli.
Read it for: an entertaining, well-researched look at 20th-century New York City and the middle-class young women who went there to find freedom and work. |
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