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Jon Fasman’s dizzyingly plotted intellectual thriller suggests a marriage between Dan Brown and Donna Tartt. When reporter Paul Tomm is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of a reclusive academic, he finds himself pursuing leads that date back to the twelfth century and the theft of...

Call it Miscellany, if you prefer. This podcast contains several pieces that I've written over the years and that I like well enough to read aloud. More current stuff can be found under the title The Itinerant Geographer, and you can find a more sustained effort, amounting to an audio book, under the title The Places Where We Belong.

Women in GIS presents "Geographers without Borders". This interview-style podcast brings you guests from around the world to share about their niche in geography. From GIS to Urban Planning to Marine Biology, scientists and professionals around the world use the science of geography to solve problems critical to humanity every day. With Host, Shannon Foxx-Day, and Producer, Caitlin Hagar-Kuhn.

The title of this podcast comes from a newsletter compiled and written for perhaps 20 years by the late Professor James J. Parsons of UC Berkeley's Geography Department. That department has moved on, as departments do, but this podcast pays homage to the department as it was when I was a student there in the 1960s. I think of these episodes as a continuation of my two other podcasts, The Places Where We Belong and The Geographer's Scrapbook.

Our award-winning podcasts bring the latest geographical insights to your classroom from a host of experts. The experts involved present their own opinions, which should not be interpreted as the Society's point of view.

An Itinerant Geographer is a continuing series of geographical essays by Bret Wallach, professor emeritus of geography at the University of Oklahoma. Greatmirror.com has accompanying photographs. Substack has visually attractive transcripts."The Itinerant Geographer" was the title of a meticulous newsletter formerly published by the Geography Department at UC Berkeley. It was a labor of love compiled and written by Wallach's academic advisor, the late James J. Parsons.

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The Girl Explorers is the inspirational and untold story of the founding of the Society of Women Geographers - an organization of adventurous female world explorers - and how key members served as early advocates for human rights and paved the way for today's women scientists by scaling mountains, exploring the high seas, flying across the Atlantic, and recording the world through film, sculpture, and literature.