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HarperCollins

3 books

No. 0333 Book · No fixed address

In Plain Sight

Ross Coulthart

Coulthart is an Australian investigative reporter with a serious record — organized crime, war crimes, corporate fraud — and he came to this subject skeptical. The book works through the documented material rather than the folklore: The Navy videos and…

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In Plain Sight
No. 0008 Memoir · Asia

Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road

Kate Harris

Harris is one of the few authors whose writing stops me in my tracks (in a good way, of course). She grew up wanting to be an explorer, decided the planet was fully mapped, and went into science instead —…

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Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road
No. 0116 Cookbook · Polar

The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning: A Polar Journey

Wendy Trusler, Carol Devine

Is it a cookbook? A field journal memoir? A photo album with cool archives, like a scan of a 1912 polar menu featuring “Plum Pouding Union Jack” and penguin? Yes, yes, and yes. But, cooking and cleaning...in Antarctica? Two young…

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The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning: A Polar Journey