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Patagonia

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No. 0095 Memoir · South America

180º South: Conquerers of the Useless

Yvon Chouinard

The 1968 journey to Patagonia by Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins is the stuff of legend, and from it epic tales and giant companies were sparked. Four decades later, Jeff Johnson retraced their travels for Chris Malloy’s 2010 film, 180°…

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No. 0096 Memoir · Alaska

Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage

Audrey Sutherland

Audrey Sutherland paddled a nine-foot inflatable kayak up the Inside Passage from Ketchikan, alone, in her sixties, in summer after summer until she’d done the whole eight hundred and fifty miles. No support, no motor, food she’d dehydrated herself, camping…

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No. 0112 Science · No fixed address

Waves and Beaches: The Powerful Dynamics of Sea and Coast

Kim McCoy

What The Joy of Cooking is to home cooks, Waves and Beaches has been to sea lovers for nearly sixty years. The comprehensive tome is part fundamental instructional and part voluminous love letter to the alchemy of where land meets…

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Waves and Beaches: The Powerful Dynamics of Sea and Coast