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Frankenstein's Sheep

Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess

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Into the Sands of Time: Exploring Egypt's White and Black Deserts

Time for a Demotion: We aren't as special as we think

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Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropófago (1928)

Mental Health and the 17th-Century Ship's Doctor

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Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and Political Citizenship

An Unholy Alliance

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Swahili on the Road

Man of Glass: Boccaccio: A Biography

Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

The European wood pigeon helped me appreciate its omnipresent city cousins

The Travel Writer's Dilemma: Share, or Gatekeep?

Cannibal Crusaders

Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights

America, América: A New History of the New World

The Last Nomads

Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery

W.a.s.t.e. Not: John Scanlan looks for the future in the dustbins of history

The Merovingians: 'Do-Nothing Kings'?

The Value of Differences: Jennifer Lindsay on Noticing Translation

Lost City of the Samurai

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The Blood on the Keyboard

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Peru's Great Urban Experiment (2023)

Traveling Through India on the Himsagar Express

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India's Prettiest Library

When Ford Madox Ford and Hemingway Started a Journal in Paris

Russia's California Colony

The Divine Engineer of Ancient Sichuan

The ancient discovery that put a Silk Road city back on the map

A Hardened Detective and an Angry Rock Star: How an Art Fraud Was Cracked

Open Socrates by Agnes Callard review – a design for life

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How saffron became an American cash crop

The Diagnostician of Despair

Charles de Gaulle manuscripts discovered in a safe

Getting Away: Review of Rural Hours

Miles of Russian Forest Couldn't Keep These Two Tigers Apart

Parkchester – The Bronx: Last Stop on the Orphan Train

Caving scientists exploring the darkest places on Earth

Iceland Spar

Siberian Exile in Tsarist Russia

Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel

The Surprising Social Lives of Pythons

Hello to All That

Tickets Are for Remembering

Islands of the Feral Pigs

A Serious Man: On Bruno Latour

Lies, intrigue, lawsuits: The last battle for a 'cursed' giant emerald

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Our Boundless Love for Big Sur May Be Killing It

Why a Minnesota Man Walked Around the World, Traversing 13 Countries

The revival of the beach in twentieth-century Los Angeles

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Researchers Find Cannibalized Victim of 19th-Century Arctic Voyage

The Scramble for Madagascar

Tapia, Tabbi, Tabique, Tabby

Famed Polynesian island did not succumb to 'ecological suicide,' study argues

The Paradox of the Distance Runner

Gibbons move with rhythm and intention. Dare we say style?

Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux Review

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back

Saving Southeast Asia's Sunken Warships

An Ottoman Winter in Toulon

Captain Cook's Contested Claim to Australia

California's Rice Royalty Is Stepping Down

Olympic surfing comes to a 'poisoned' paradise

The medieval 'New England' on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015)

The tastes of a restaurant at the end of the world

A Cursed Ship and the Fate of Its Sunken Gold

The Paradoxical Paradise of the Garden

Ernest Hemingway's brother established a floating republic in the Caribbean

The Soviet Union's Monster Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner

Was the Dingo Born to Be Wild?

Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition

Who Owns Alexander the Great? It's a Diplomatic Minefield

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