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November 1974 · Wraparound · Previous · Next

Tales of grandeur, tales of risk

By Annie Dillard



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SEE ALSO: Adventure and adventurers; Adventures in the Arctic: my life in the frozen north (Book); Lansing, Alfred; Alive: the story of the Andes survivors (Book); Alone (Book); Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de; Autumn across America (Book); Book of the Eskimos (Book); Fletcher, Colin; Turnbull, Colin M.; Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness (Book); Abbey, Edward; Teale, Edwin Way; Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall; Endurance (Book); Mowat, Farley; Maxwell, Gavin; Durrell, Gerald Malcolm; Beston, Henry; Here to stay (Book); Dinesen, Isak; Ishi in two worlds (Book); Hersey, John; Muir, John; Journey into summer (Book); Scherman, Katharine; My family and other animals (Book); My first summer in the Sierra (Book); North with the spring (Book); Open horizons (Book); Out of Africa (Book); People of the deer (Book); Freuchen, Peter; Read, Piers Paul; Byrd, Richard Evelyn; Dana, Richard Henry; Ring of bright water (Book); Runes of the North (Book); Olson, Sigurd F.; Spring on an Arctic island (Book); The complete walker (Book); The forest people (Book); The lonely land (Book); The man who walked through time (Book); The mountain people (Book); The outermost house (Book); Kroeber, Theodora; Travels in Alaska (Book); Two years before the mast (Book); Wandering through winter (Book); Wind, sand, and stars (Book)
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