Vivacious and celebratory, the cookbook "Flavour with Benefits" applies a plant-based twist to the tastes of Southern Italy. Set amid a landscape of Grecian ruins, volcanoes, olive groves, vineyards, and stunning blue seas, Cathy... Read More
Peter W. Fong’s "Rowing to Baikal" covers his rowing trip down the Selenge River, from its headwaters in Mongolia to Lake Baikal in Russia. Along the way, he assesses the health of the river’s ecosystem and the potential impact of... Read More
Sandy Winterbottom’s "The Two-Headed Whale" intertwines her engrossing 2016 Antarctica travel account with the story of a whaling ship deckhand in the early 1950s. Winterbottom spent six weeks on a “sleek, beautiful, hand-built—and... Read More
Amy Yee’s book "Far from the Rooftop of the World" features the narratives of everyday Tibetans in exile. Gathered in India from 2008 to 2010 and in Australia, Belgium, and the United States from 2015 to 2021, the book contains the... Read More
With a small group of fellow explorers, Leon McCarron followed the Tigris River from its mountainous source to its mouth at the Persian Gulf. His travelogue, "Wounded Tigris", is a brilliant record of latter-day Mesopotamia and the... Read More
A battle with drug addiction is supplanted by a bicycle-powered birding road trip in Dorian Anderson’s gripping memoir "Birding Under the Influence". Anderson was an addict. Whether he was strung out on the drugs and alcohol he abused... Read More
A layered scholar’s memoir, Susan J. Godwin’s "Rain Dodging" details and personalizes her research into the late seventeenth-century Stuart court of Queen Mary of Modena, consort to James II. While studying at Oxford, Godwin became... Read More
Taras Grescoe’s investigative book "The Lost Supper" elevates the quest to eat sustainably into a jet-stetting journey to nine international destinations to learn ancient foodways and acquire traditional and Indigenous ingredients. An... Read More