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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.

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.

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.