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Discovery and exploration

The Palm at the End of the Mind

by Rachel Kushner,

A French activist I know, a person with a flair for assailing the idiocies of modern life, someone who pines, though not romantically, for a trapdoor to a better world,…

Unyielding Ice

by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary,

On the sixteenth of July, 1905, the steamer Roosevelt left New York Harbor for her northern voyage. Her course from the anchorage was noisy with the friendly greetings of every…

The Long Draw

by Jeremy Miller,

On the trail of an artistic mystery in the American West

Cold Rush

by McKenzie Funk,

The coming fight for the melting north

Whoever speaks ill of us

Translated by Josh Bergen,

The idea of north

by Peter Davidson,

Wooden dollar

by Ben Metcalf,

The undiscovered Sacajawea

Messages on a sandstone bluff

by Evan S. Connell,

How the West was Lost

by Tom Chaffin,

A road trip in search of the Oregon Trail

An expedition map

by Annie Proulx,

Shades of Greenland

by Simon Winchester,

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