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David Roberts, "veteran mountain climber and chronicler of adventures" (Washington Post), has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes on earth. In Limits of the Known, he reflects on humanity's - and his own - relationship to extreme risk. Part memoir and part history, this book tries to make sense of why so many have committed their lives to the desperate pursuit of adventure.

Miles from the Known Created and narrated by photojournalist Christy Prosser Miles from the Known is a cinematic storytelling podcast exploring belonging, humanity, and the quiet truths found on the road. Through the lens of her camera and journeys across more than fifty countries, Christy reflects on the people and places that shape us; from a man on his knees in Costa Rica to a Sans guide standing in the red sands of Namibia at dawn, and countless stories beyond. Each episode blends immersive sound, narrative, and reflection to uncover what it means to belong in a world that never stops ...

An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet’s most ferocious and fascinating predators. Over the last forty years, bestselling science-fiction writer Alan Dean Foster has journeyed around the globe to encounter nature’s most fearsome creatures. His travels have taken him into the heart of the Amazon rain forest on the trail of deadly tangarana ants, on an elephant ride across the sweeping green plains of central India in search of the elusive Bengal tiger, and into the waters of the Australian coast to come face-to-face with great white sharks. Packed with pulse-pounding adventure and spiked with rapier wit, Predators I Have Known is a thrilling look at life and death in the wild.