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No. 0414 Book · No fixed address

Place of Tides

James Rebanks

Rebanks, the Lake District shepherd who wrote The Shepherd’s Life, went to a bare island off the coast of northern Norway for a season to work with a woman named Anna in her seventies — one of the last of…

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Place of Tides
No. 0101 Guide · No fixed address

The Encyclopedia of Surfing

Matt Warshaw

Warshaw spent years assembling this — fifteen hundred entries covering surfers, breaks, board designers, films, magazines, contests, terminology, and the odd corners nobody else bothered with. It’s alphabetical and it’s browsable to a dangerous degree: You look up one thing…

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The Encyclopedia of Surfing
No. 0141 Essays · No fixed address

Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road

Matthew B. Crawford

Matthew Crawford devotes Why We Drive to an anonymous couple he sees running down a wooded trail, pretending they’re riding motorcycles, making vrooming noises and playfully leaping over roots. It’s this eye for the small but uniquely human details that…

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