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Richard Grant traveled into the Sierra Madre of Mexico — a region controlled by drug cartels, where the Tarahumara run and the law doesn't reach. Dangerous, vivid, and written by a man who kept going when common sense said stop.

Peter Heller — who wrote Hell or High Water — learns to surf in his forties. The humility of being a beginner, the ocean's indifference to your credentials, and the joy of catching a wave badly. Warm and self-deprecating.

Deakin's exploration of Britain's woods — coppicing, swimming in forest pools, sleeping in hollow trees. The companion piece to Waterlog, trading rivers for trees.