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Using notes from Captain Frederick Bailey, a British secret agent who’d stumbled across a hidden valley in Tibet in the 1930s while reconnoitering with rebel groups in Asia, Fisher helped locate the fabled Kintup Falls, a thundering cascade that conceals the entrance to the deepest canyon on the planet. From there, Fisher moled his way into lost wo
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An Olive Grove at the Edge of the World: How two American city boys built a new life in rural New Zealand
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A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The hills immediately west of the Tillman abode are honeycombed with mine shafts that once yielded a bounty of mercury ore. It was the most valuable mine in California during the latter half of the nineteenth century, but the diggings were shut down in 1975, after which the site was designated a forty-two-hundred-acre recreational area and thirty-f
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
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