Episode 067 – Nature/Outdoors Nonfiction
This episode we’re talking about Nature/Outdoors Non-Fiction! We discuss armchair travelling, whether olden days explorers were idiots, manliness, and how trees communicate! Plus: Meghan tells us about when she was a fantasy character and birds ate out of her hands.
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In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards
Books We Read This Month
- The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
- To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration by Edward J. Larson
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- Robert Scott was the explorer who was married to Matthew’s friend’s ancestor
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
- The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen
- The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
- The Breakaway by Nicole Cooke
- Le Québec cyclable – Guide des pistes cyclables au Québec by Collectif Ulysse
- Le pouvoir de la pédale by Olivier Razemon
Other Media We Mention
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure by Richard Evelyn Byrd (the carbon monoxide poisoning book Meghan could not recall)
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- On the Camino by Jason
Links, Articles, and Things
- Outdoor literature (Wikipedia)
- National Outdoor Book Award
- Mars rovers (Wikipedia) (there is a great infographic of driving distances on the moon and mars on this page)
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- Spirit (XKCD)
- Opportunity (XKCD)
- Curiosity (the one that sang Happy Birthday)
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