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2) The Odyssey
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The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and identity; and about travellers, hospitality and the changing meanings of home in a strange world. This vivid new translation - the first by a woman - matches the number of lines in the Greek original, striding at Homer's sprightly pace. Emily Wilson employs elemental, resonant...
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On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over "Shangri-La," a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton's bestselling novel Lost Horizon, this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to be cannibals.But the pleasure tour became an unforgettable battle for survival...
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My name is Josh Collman and I fell 100 feet from Crestone Needle in Colorado on August 13th, 2017. After falling 100 feet, I landed on a ledge that's probably the size of your dinner table. What followed next was 8 hours of torment through the trials and tribulations of my injuries and the weather that ensued. The rescue that I required at more than 13,500 feet of altitude in the mountains turned into a National MRA Lifesaving Award. I am not just...
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