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From morpho butterflies in the rain forest to the blue jay flitting past your window, vanishingly few living things are blue. Yet this hard-to-spot accent color in our surroundings looms large in our affections. Science journalist Kai Kupferschmidt has been fascinated by blue since childhood. His quest to find and understand his favorite color and its hallowed place in our culture takes him to a gene-splicing laboratory in Japan, a volcanic lake in Oregon, and to Brandenburg, Germany - home of the last Spix's macaws.

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get...

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history? Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that comes with it. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world's most mysterious and impenetrable cultures.

An engaging collection of travel essays by the author of The Sheltering Sky Their Heads are Green, Their Hands are Blue deals largely with places in the world that few Westerners have ever heard of, much less seen—places as yet unencumbered by the trappings, luxuries, and corruptions of modern...

One of Library Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2015 Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this...

Stuart Woods had never owned more than a dinghy before setting out on one of the world’s most demanding sea voyages, navigating single-handedly across the Atlantic. How, at the age of thirty-seven, did this self-proclaimed novice go from small ponds to the big sea? Now with a new afterword...

Laura Pariani è andata per la prima volta a 15 anni in Argentina e in Patagonia, in un viaggio folgorante alla ricerca di un nonno che si era trasferito là. Su questo palinsesto i ritorni si sono accumulati come fonte inesauribile di scoperte di sé e della vita. Nella sua Patagonia il paesaggio del Fin del Mundo è segnato dalle ferite immedicabili dello sterminio indio. C'è uno spaesante contrasto tra la "discrezione dei manufatti umani", spesso definiti "arrugginiti", e la "densa vitalità" della natura.

The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species...

Oakland is a blues city, brawling and husky . . . Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkling sister city across the Bay, Oakland is itself an American wonder. The city is surrounded by and filled with natural beauty—mountains and hills and lakes and a bay—and architecture that...

Using the richness of braided essays, Theresa Kishkan thinks deeply about the natural world, mourns and celebrates the aging body, gently contests recorded history, and considers art and visual phenomena. Gathering personal genealogies, medical histories, and early land surveys together with insights from music, color theory, horticulture, and textile production, Kishkan weaves a pattern of richly textured threads, welcoming listeners to share her intellectual and emotional preoccupations.

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND PASTE MAGAZINE An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed. The sea is broken, fishermen say. The sea is...

Àrtzia e setzi a pitzu de su Postali Blues, su podcast nou in lìngua sarda de RTS - Radio Televisione Sarda!Unu viàgiu in undixi puntadas in cumpangia de duus autistas de ecetzioni, Elio Turno Arthemalle e Emanuele Pittoni, chi ant acumpangiai pasegereus atravessu totu sa Sardigna. Ant a essi viagiadoris berus, de fantasia, poèticus, curiosus, trasseris e brullanus… a dònnia manera po ddu nai in d’unu fueddu sceti: stravanaus!Postali Blues est unu progràma de Paolo CarboniProdutzioni: RTS - Radio Televisione SardaA incuru de: Elio Turno Arthemalle, Emanuele PittoniRegia: Paolo ...

Born in France, Sophie returns to her birthplace on a quest to find not the place where she was a child but her childhood itself. Her poor French and the mistake of a cab driver results in her stepping into the Hotel Placide, an ancient house of blue walls and blue curtains and blue rugs, in which she encounters an aspiring nun, a trigger-happy little boy, and a quiet, enigmatic farmer.

Oakland is a blues city, brawling and husky . . . Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkling sister city across the Bay, Oakland is itself an American wonder. The city is surrounded by and filled with natural beauty—mountains and hills and lakes and a bay—and architecture that...

Join Sarah and Molly every Wednesday to chat about all things Disney Parks. From top ten lists to imaginary trips, the Blue Castle Podcast is a space to daydream about your next Disney adventure. So grab your Minnie ears or your pin lanyard, and we hope you enjoy!

You’ve heard about the Three Sisters.But what about the spots and stories only locals know in the Blue Mountains of NSW Australia?Blue Mountains brings the region’s deepest secrets to the surface – with interviews, news and tips for your next trip.After all, the best way to hear about the Blue Mountains, is to hear it for yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Blue Butterfly Travel is a family travel and lifestyle podcast and blog founded by three moms who share a love of travel and family fun. We are multiplatform content creators specializing in family travel and lifestyle, as well as certified travel agents. So, whether you’re a family of six, a single parent, a dog parent, or just you and your sweetheart, this podcast is for you. We will be sharing travel tips, stories, videos, news updates, and daily lifestyle content curated through our own experiences and what we have learned from others.

Patsi Mackenzie, a writer and broadcaster from the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, spends much of the year on the French Riviera. Captivated by the city of Nice and the people who - like her – go there once and never want to leave. In the summer of 2024, Patsi began recording snapshot conversations in English on the Côte d’Azur. Her guests cover a wide range of ages, professions and backgrounds. From musicians and historians, to chefs and teachers. All with one thing in common; a devotion to the Riviera. Their personal stories are revealed in these gently probing podcasts, recorded against ...

The Blue Tarp covers the stories of the people and places of Alaska's Northern Susitna Valley, told by the people who lived them. From old-timers to newcomers, there's room for everyone under our tarp.

The Blue Lagoon: Iceland's Geothermal Gem Amidst the rugged, otherworldly landscape of Iceland, where glaciers creep across volcanic fields and hot springs bubble beneath the surface, there lies a man-made wonder that has captured the hearts and imaginations of people from all corners of the globe. The Blue Lagoon, a geothermal spa nestled in the heart of the Reykjanes Peninsula, is a testament to the ingenuity and resilience of the Icelandic people, and a symbol of the country's unique geological heritage. The story of the Blue Lagoon begins not with a grand vision or a carefully laid plan, ...