Travel
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ATLAS OBSCURA
🖋️ Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton
🏢 Workman
A richly documented ultimate explorer's guide to more than 700 hidden marvels, events and curiosities around the world.
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HUMANS OF NEW YORK: STORIES
🖋️ Brandon Stanton
🏢 St. Martin's
More photographs, this time accompanied by interviews, from the creator of the blog and the book “Humans of New York.”
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THE ROAD TO LITTLE DRIBBLING
🖋️ Bill Bryson
🏢 Anchor
An American expatriate travels around his adopted country, Britain.
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HUMANS OF NEW YORK
🖋️ Brandon Stanton
🏢 St. Martin's
Four hundred color photos of New Yorkers, with brief commentary. Originally published in 2013.
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SULLY
🖋️ Chesley B Sullenberger III with Jeffrey Zaslow
🏢 Morrow/HarperCollins
A memoir by the pilot who made an emergency landing on the Hudson River in 2009. Originally published as “Highest Duty” in 2009. The basis for the 2016 movie.
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DESTINATIONS OF A LIFETIME
🖋️ the staff of National Geographic
🏢 National Geographic Society
A photographic tour of 225 global destinations.
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SPEAKING AMERICAN
🖋️ Josh Katz
🏢 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The creator of the New York Times dialect quiz provides a guide to how words are pronounced in different parts of the country.
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WILD
🖋️ Cheryl Strayed
🏢 Knopf
An account of the life-changing 1,100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995. Originally published in 2012 and a 2014 movie.
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LION
🖋️ Saroo Brierley
🏢 NAL
The author was lost on a train in India at age 5, then adopted by a couple in Australia; he searched for and found his birth family as an adult. Originally published in 2014 as “A Long Way Home” and the basis for the 2016 movie.
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NONSTOP METROPOLIS
🖋️ Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
🏢 University of California
Essays and 26 imaginative maps celebrate New York City.