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Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier by Mark Adams

Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

Mark Adams

336 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir travel adventurous informative slow-paced
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

13 hours, 48 minutes • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS by David France

How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS

David France

24 hours, 29 minutes • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction health history lgbtqia+ emotional informative slow-paced
Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians by Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky

Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky

242 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
Why The West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future by Ian Morris

Why The West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future

Ian Morris

750 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein

Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

Peggy Orenstein

216 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction art memoir nature emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau

The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

Marie Favereau

304 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative medium-paced
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World—and Us by Patrick Roberts

Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World—and Us

Patrick Roberts

368 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction nature science informative reflective medium-paced
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

Dan Jones

636 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative tense slow-paced
Ten Cities that Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity by Paul Strathern

Ten Cities that Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity

Paul Strathern

288 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
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