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Voyage au Brésil 5/16/2021
Reading time: 4 minutes
This book has it all.
Pirates. Colonialism. Revenge. Religious chauvinism. Naked natives. Slavery. Face-eating lizards. Toe-biting bats. War. Cannibalism. Lawsuits. Starvation and death.
Backgrou...
Baedeker's United States 4/5/2021
Reading time: 3 minutes
I didn't know where to start.
The German bookseller Karl Baedeker wrote travel guides in the late 1820s, and started publishing his famous Baedeker Guides in the 1850s. The last was published in...
To Shake the Sleeping Self 3/7/2021
Reading time: 4 minutes
I admit it.
My patience for Christians is short. I therefore harbored misgivings about To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins—a story in which the author rides a bike 14,000 miles from O...
Adrift 2/25/2021
Reading time: 3 minutes
The author is not lost.
The back cover copy even says so: "Meet Puneetinder Kaur Sidhu: self-professed travel enthusiast. (...) She is not lost. She is not queuing up to find herself. (...) Nor is...
The Sex Lives of Cannibals 2/17/2021
Reading time: 3 minutes
It sounds phenomenal.
In the mid 1990s, J. Maarten Troost's girlfriend Sylvia is offered a job on the atoll of Tarawa, the capital of Kiribati, an island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean....
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