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At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human.In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists, and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate a...
Caroline Paul
Jan 05, 2021This is a clear, vivid text with charts and maps showing the positions of the constellations the year round....
Caroline Paul
The Dog Stars
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Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley. But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep...
Caroline Paul
The Things They Carried
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In 1979, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato—a novel about the Vietnam War—won the National Book Award. In this, his second work of fiction about Vietnam, O'Brien's unique artistic vision is again clearly demonstrated. Neither a novel nor a short story collection, it is an arc of fictional episodes, taking place in the childhoods of its characters, ...
Sea Kayaking in Baja
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Sea Kayaking in Baja...
Caroline Paul