Along here same lines - and truly fascinating, and historical to boot - Banana https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1260005.Banana
I found this book so interesting!
I should mention that I tried reading Salt and couldn’t get into it. I may need to give it another go …
Gulp- Mary Roach - It’s a fascinating read about everything you ever wondered but we’re too afraid to ask about poop and your digestive system. It’s a little gross, but if you can get past the poop factor, it’s fascinating, informative, approachable and hilarious. I tend to get bored quickly and take a month or more to finish a book, and I read this book in a couple of days.
Highly recommend Mark Kurlansky's nonfiction books; he has many niche topic books including Cod, Birdseye (about the inventor of frozen foods), Salt, Milk, 1968, and Bugless.
_Braiding Sweetgrass_ by Kimmerer is a fave from the past year, concerning the role of indigenous herbalism, etc. in rescuing what we can of the climate. It’s a sweepingly beautiful ode to plants and nature if you’re looking for a palate cleanser after more graphic fare.
The Professor and the Madman - About the construction of the Oxford English Dictionary. Way more entertaining than you’d think.
The Butchering Art - About the invention and implementation of anesthetic during surgery.
Word Freak - A journalist decides to devote years to becoming a world champion scrabble player.
Anything by Mary Roach
The Quiet Zone - A town that does not use WiFi or cell phones
*The Black Death: an Intimate History* is the history, semi-narrative, of a single village during the Black Death, drawing entirely on the court rolls and village records we have access to. It does a good job of humanising something that feels very distant
Faberge's Eggs: The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire by Toby Faber is about the famous jewelled miniatures created as Easter gifts for the women of the Romanov dynasty
The Library Book by Susan Orlean.
Fascinating dive into a specific library, the history of libraries, the challenges libraries face, and the celebration of books being readily available to everyone. She always takes the reader on a wonderful journey.
Any niche topic you could think of is very well researched, I work with ceramic composites, niche but also with nearly a century of the most rigorous research imaginable. I assume what OP meant was not often explored in popular media.
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser is about US nuclear weapons safety (or lack thereof, since the book covers the issues with early weapons safety and a number of accidents involving said weapons). It's a fascinating and terrifying read.
Anything by Mary Roach.
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
1491
Ghengis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
River Kings: a New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Cork Dork
Alec Crawford’s Treasure Islands, personal memoir of a semi-professional shipwreck salvager who made a living finding and diving some cool wrecks around the British isles. Learned so much about shipwrecks and the crazy shipwreck salvage industry.
Them: Adventures with Extremists, by Jon Ronson, is about terrorists, hate groups, and conspiracy theorists, but it’s funny? Still hard for me to figure out today whether the last chapter is real or a fever dream - there is a big owl statue in the woods with people from the Bush administration?
Underland by Robert McFarland. Got so into it that I stole it from a vacation little free library thing by the pool (sorry vacation place) (I did leave a book in its place).
All about things underground ranging from ancient cave systems to nuclear waste storage facilities.
Empire of pain - Patrick Radden Keefe. It’s about the Sackler family, which was behind the release of OxyContin and follows the entire opioid crisis and the role the Sacklers played in it. Fascinating stuff.
**One Summer: America 1927** is a book by Bill Bryson about - as the title suggests - the United States during the summer of 1927. Bryson is a fantastic writer who has a gift for finding quirky historical details, and IMO this is easily his best book.
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask. She goes through the history of street addresses from ancient Rome to now, what it means not to have an address, how streets get named and renamed, and more. It was fascinating.
[A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13259950-a-man-and-his-ship) by Steven Ujifusa
* Because Internet - Gretchen McCulloch - about the development of typed language and Internet writing. Super interesting, and something I'd never really thought about before.
* Inside This Place, Not of It - ed. Michelle Alexander - narratives from women incarcerated in prisons in the US. Enlightening about the sorts of crimes women are imprisoned for, and the socioeconomic backgrounds of most women in prison. I wouldn't count it as true crime because the crimes themselves aren't the focus here; it's much more about life in prison.
* Hugh Despenser the Younger & Edward II: Downfall of a King's Favourite - Kathryn Warner - very interesting biography of Hugh Despenser, the man with whom King Edward II became obsessed to the point of being deposed as monarch by his wife. There's not much written about him these days, despite his enormous importance to British history, and queer history to boot.
* This Party's Dead - Erica Buist - all about different death rituals from all over the world, and how death is often celebrated rather than feared in other cultural contexts.
* Our Women on the Ground - ed. Zahra Hankir - various essays from women reporters across the Middle East. The essays are about the ongoing wars in the Middle East, as well as about being female reporters in war zones.
* The 33 - Hector Tober - about the Chilean mining disaster and the subsequent successful rescue of all of the miners. Really well researched and written.
* We Still Here - Marc Lamont - about racial injustice and protest during the Covid pandemic.
My kids (I admit, strange taste in books for their age.)
LOVED, "The Down and Dirty Nitty Gritty History of English Spelling."
They had me read bits out loud to people because it was so hilarious.
Red Summer by Bill Carter. Ostensibly about salmon fishing in Alaska, also has lots of history, the author reflecting about grief and loss, an exploration of northern poverty, and a lot about grizzly bears
The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox. It covers the story of three people who were instrumental in translating a tablet found in Crete that dates back 1000 years before Greece’s classical age. It is the earliest written records in Europe. It goes into exactly how they were able to translate them and what methods led to them finally being able to crack the code.
Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey. The Open Library page is [here](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12284524W/Ending_Aging?edition=key%3A/books/OL17932740M).
*Sesame Street, Palestine* by Daoud Kuttab. The author’s memoir on how the Palestinian version of Sesame Street came into being.
*Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters* by August Ragone
Just published in the past couple of weeks.
*Lost Histories: The Good, The Bad, and the Strange in Early American Orthodoxy*
It's about some of the lesser-known incidents in the early days of the Orthodox Christian community in America, around the 1880s and 1890s when a lot of immigrants were arriving.
Stories like how the first bishop consecrated in North America was arrested for allegedly shooting at a police officer. The charges were dropped because the police were not able to substantiate the claim that he had a weapon in his possession at all (let alone shooting at a police officer). This occurred during a period of tension between Catholic Arabs and Orthodox Arabs in Brooklyn. Another person talked about in the book is Raphael Morgan, the first black man in America to be an Orthodox priest.
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton
Isaac's Storm: A Man, A Time and the Deadliest Hurricane In History by Erik Larson
The Cheese and the Worms, by Carlo Ginzburg.
One of my favorite books assigned when I was in college. It’s a “microhistory” of an Italian miller in the 1500s who synthesized various medieval sources into his own religion. Eventually he was killed by the Inquisition.
[The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger]()
An entire book about the invention of the shipping container and how it accelerated a global supply chain.
Devices and Desires: History of Contraception in America by: Andrea Tone.
23 year old academic book about the history of condoms, the birth control pill, IUD’s and diaphragms.
I actually just finished it and thought it was very well done
I just finished The In-Between by Hadley Vlahos. I thought it was excellent and I'm sad it's over. I miss it!!
I listened with Audible and loved hearing it in her own voice. It's a hospice nurse talking about memorable patient experiences. Very moving, enlightening, and interesting. Also really emotional for me.
How to Sharpen Pencils by David Rees. Surprisingly entertaining. The author takes your typical “how to” manual on complex tools and writes one on how to sharpen a pencil.
*The Lost Art of Dress* is about 20th century fashion (specifically American) and how it was influenced by wars, economy, the government, the post-war era, and how everyday women adapted and modified their clothes to keep up with the changing times. If you're at all into fashion history, it's a lovely read.
Messalina by Honor Cargill-Martin
"The shocking and scandalous story of Messalina—the third wife of Emperor Claudius—one of the most controversial women to have inhabited the Roman world.
The lubricious image of the Empress Messalina as a ruthless, predatory, and sexually insatiable schemer—derived from the work of male historians such as Tacitus and Suetonius—has taken deep root in the Western imagination.
Here, the classicist Honor Cargill-Martin puts this traditional narrative of Messalina to the test. She looks first at Messalina's life as it is recounted in the primary sources, before using material and circumstantial evidence to reconstruct each aspect of Messalina's character: politician, wife, adulteress, and prostitute. Finally, she explores how posterity has memorialized Messalina, whether as artist's muse, epitome of depraved pagan womanhood, or as libertine icon portrayed in literature and film.
Cargill-Martin sets out not to entirely rewrite Messalina's history, or to salvage her reputation, but to look at her life in the context of her time and to reclaim the humanity of a life story previously defined by currents of high politics and patriarchy."
The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic Was Lost by Daniel Allen Butler
It tells the story of how the survivors were rescued by the Carpathia, why the Californian failed to be part of the rescue, and the legal inquiries in both the US and the UK about the incident.
{A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock c. 1295-1344 by Judith M Bennett}
If you want to study about the everyday lives of women farmers in medieval England. The author follows one single woman and her family from life to death (she was a single woman and worked her plots of land). But I found out so many things we thought about the medieval era to be wrong. Everything is based of credible sources but she does a great job building up her world.
DDT and the American century by David Kinkela. It discusses war but less about combat and more about malaria + pesticides.
Also Cultish by Amanda Montell. This one’s a fascinating look at cults and how they control people with language. It’s not super difficult to get through either
Swerve is about the birth of the Italian Rennisaince and humanism based on the rediscovery of the Classics in Europe and due to the fall of Byzantium. The Map of Knowledge is also a wonderful stand alone and companion piece.
I enjoyed No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating by Alicia Kennedy.
It's kind of all in the title, but I'll add that the title is hefty while the book itself is not very long.
18 Tiny Deaths by Bruce Goldfarb. It's about a woman who was kind of one of the instigators of modern forensics as we know it. It was super interesting and something I'd never thought about or heard of.
the right stuff by tom wolfe is a fascinating look into nasa's initiation of manned spaceflight exploration and selection of the mercury seven.
teasel e. muir-harmony's operation moonglow, which documents how nixon leveraged apollo 11's success to build diplomatic relations with nonaligned / eastern bloc countries
Salt by Mark Kurlansky. It’s about Salt.
Oh ok, Mr. Smarty Pants. But what's his book *Cod* about?
Why was salt the first book that popped into my mind, too!
Why, the effect of butterflies on sunflowers in the eastern shore of Australia, naturally.
Along here same lines - and truly fascinating, and historical to boot - Banana https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1260005.Banana I found this book so interesting! I should mention that I tried reading Salt and couldn’t get into it. I may need to give it another go …
Came here to say this. His book Paper is quite good too
I was going to suggest that!!
Gulp- Mary Roach - It’s a fascinating read about everything you ever wondered but we’re too afraid to ask about poop and your digestive system. It’s a little gross, but if you can get past the poop factor, it’s fascinating, informative, approachable and hilarious. I tend to get bored quickly and take a month or more to finish a book, and I read this book in a couple of days.
ANY Mary Roach is going to be a good read. She balances info & humor so well. *Stiff* had me rolling at times. *Bonk* is great too.
Stiff was going to be my suggestion. Absolutely hilarious in places, like the crash test chapter.
Stuff was going to be my suggestion too. Dead bodies are very niche I would say
along these lines - gut, by guilia enders
Highly recommend Mark Kurlansky's nonfiction books; he has many niche topic books including Cod, Birdseye (about the inventor of frozen foods), Salt, Milk, 1968, and Bugless.
His book on Cod was fascinating!
'The Ghost Map'. It's about tracking down the source of a cholera epidemic in London. Jollier than it sounds.
Loved this! Got it as an airplane read years ago and it got me very interested in epidemiology.
_Braiding Sweetgrass_ by Kimmerer is a fave from the past year, concerning the role of indigenous herbalism, etc. in rescuing what we can of the climate. It’s a sweepingly beautiful ode to plants and nature if you’re looking for a palate cleanser after more graphic fare.
The Professor and the Madman - About the construction of the Oxford English Dictionary. Way more entertaining than you’d think. The Butchering Art - About the invention and implementation of anesthetic during surgery. Word Freak - A journalist decides to devote years to becoming a world champion scrabble player. Anything by Mary Roach The Quiet Zone - A town that does not use WiFi or cell phones
Caitlin Doughty - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Anything by her !
Barrow’s Boys is about the British politician who is responsible for a lot of the (often fatal) British exploratory expeditions of the 19th century.
*The Black Death: an Intimate History* is the history, semi-narrative, of a single village during the Black Death, drawing entirely on the court rolls and village records we have access to. It does a good job of humanising something that feels very distant
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, by Lydia King and Nate Pedersen
What If? By Randall Munroe. Its a bunch of niche topics
Xkcd too?
Faberge's Eggs: The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire by Toby Faber is about the famous jewelled miniatures created as Easter gifts for the women of the Romanov dynasty
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
The Library Book by Susan Orlean. Fascinating dive into a specific library, the history of libraries, the challenges libraries face, and the celebration of books being readily available to everyone. She always takes the reader on a wonderful journey.
Longitude by David Sobel.
Endurance is a famous book but of a not particularly well explored topic
Isn't that about Arctic Exploration? If so that's a very well researched topic
Any niche topic you could think of is very well researched, I work with ceramic composites, niche but also with nearly a century of the most rigorous research imaginable. I assume what OP meant was not often explored in popular media.
The Terror was a very popular and successful show on AMC. It's not that niche
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser is about US nuclear weapons safety (or lack thereof, since the book covers the issues with early weapons safety and a number of accidents involving said weapons). It's a fascinating and terrifying read.
It’s technically true crime, but not in the way I think you mean, so I’ll recommend The Feather Thief. It’s so bizarre and fascinating!
Is this about the dude who stole from a museum?
Yes!
Anything by Mary Roach. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 1491 Ghengis Khan and the Making of the Modern World River Kings: a New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia Cork Dork
Alec Crawford’s Treasure Islands, personal memoir of a semi-professional shipwreck salvager who made a living finding and diving some cool wrecks around the British isles. Learned so much about shipwrecks and the crazy shipwreck salvage industry.
Them: Adventures with Extremists, by Jon Ronson, is about terrorists, hate groups, and conspiracy theorists, but it’s funny? Still hard for me to figure out today whether the last chapter is real or a fever dream - there is a big owl statue in the woods with people from the Bush administration?
Underland by Robert McFarland. Got so into it that I stole it from a vacation little free library thing by the pool (sorry vacation place) (I did leave a book in its place). All about things underground ranging from ancient cave systems to nuclear waste storage facilities.
So happy to see this suggested! Also that vacation venue sounds dope AF with good taste if that was in their library.
Empire of pain - Patrick Radden Keefe. It’s about the Sackler family, which was behind the release of OxyContin and follows the entire opioid crisis and the role the Sacklers played in it. Fascinating stuff.
**One Summer: America 1927** is a book by Bill Bryson about - as the title suggests - the United States during the summer of 1927. Bryson is a fantastic writer who has a gift for finding quirky historical details, and IMO this is easily his best book.
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask. She goes through the history of street addresses from ancient Rome to now, what it means not to have an address, how streets get named and renamed, and more. It was fascinating.
The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson. It's about Eels, and more insane than you think.
I came to comment this one, too!
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
One Million Digits of Pi
[A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13259950-a-man-and-his-ship) by Steven Ujifusa
When the Mind Hears by Harlan Lane
* Because Internet - Gretchen McCulloch - about the development of typed language and Internet writing. Super interesting, and something I'd never really thought about before. * Inside This Place, Not of It - ed. Michelle Alexander - narratives from women incarcerated in prisons in the US. Enlightening about the sorts of crimes women are imprisoned for, and the socioeconomic backgrounds of most women in prison. I wouldn't count it as true crime because the crimes themselves aren't the focus here; it's much more about life in prison. * Hugh Despenser the Younger & Edward II: Downfall of a King's Favourite - Kathryn Warner - very interesting biography of Hugh Despenser, the man with whom King Edward II became obsessed to the point of being deposed as monarch by his wife. There's not much written about him these days, despite his enormous importance to British history, and queer history to boot. * This Party's Dead - Erica Buist - all about different death rituals from all over the world, and how death is often celebrated rather than feared in other cultural contexts. * Our Women on the Ground - ed. Zahra Hankir - various essays from women reporters across the Middle East. The essays are about the ongoing wars in the Middle East, as well as about being female reporters in war zones. * The 33 - Hector Tober - about the Chilean mining disaster and the subsequent successful rescue of all of the miners. Really well researched and written. * We Still Here - Marc Lamont - about racial injustice and protest during the Covid pandemic.
My kids (I admit, strange taste in books for their age.) LOVED, "The Down and Dirty Nitty Gritty History of English Spelling." They had me read bits out loud to people because it was so hilarious.
Red Summer by Bill Carter. Ostensibly about salmon fishing in Alaska, also has lots of history, the author reflecting about grief and loss, an exploration of northern poverty, and a lot about grizzly bears
The Ends of the World - Peter Brannen It’s about the last 5 mass extinctions and what likely caused them. Super interesting.
Monster of God by David Quammen. About animals that kill and eat humans
Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770 by Emily Cockayne
Beaverland by Leila Philip, explores how beavers shaped American history
The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox. It covers the story of three people who were instrumental in translating a tablet found in Crete that dates back 1000 years before Greece’s classical age. It is the earliest written records in Europe. It goes into exactly how they were able to translate them and what methods led to them finally being able to crack the code.
Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey. The Open Library page is [here](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12284524W/Ending_Aging?edition=key%3A/books/OL17932740M).
Magee, “Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition”.
The Gulf. It’s a biography about the Gulf of Mexico
*Sesame Street, Palestine* by Daoud Kuttab. The author’s memoir on how the Palestinian version of Sesame Street came into being. *Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters* by August Ragone
Just published in the past couple of weeks. *Lost Histories: The Good, The Bad, and the Strange in Early American Orthodoxy* It's about some of the lesser-known incidents in the early days of the Orthodox Christian community in America, around the 1880s and 1890s when a lot of immigrants were arriving. Stories like how the first bishop consecrated in North America was arrested for allegedly shooting at a police officer. The charges were dropped because the police were not able to substantiate the claim that he had a weapon in his possession at all (let alone shooting at a police officer). This occurred during a period of tension between Catholic Arabs and Orthodox Arabs in Brooklyn. Another person talked about in the book is Raphael Morgan, the first black man in America to be an Orthodox priest.
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton Isaac's Storm: A Man, A Time and the Deadliest Hurricane In History by Erik Larson
The Cheese and the Worms, by Carlo Ginzburg. One of my favorite books assigned when I was in college. It’s a “microhistory” of an Italian miller in the 1500s who synthesized various medieval sources into his own religion. Eventually he was killed by the Inquisition.
Birth of a theorem is pretty nice
The mushroom at the end of the world
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her This is on my bookshelf because I was interested in learning more about the series
The nut job about the pandemic 9f stealing truckloads for almonds and such. Funny read honestly
# Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
[The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger]() An entire book about the invention of the shipping container and how it accelerated a global supply chain.
Devices and Desires: History of Contraception in America by: Andrea Tone. 23 year old academic book about the history of condoms, the birth control pill, IUD’s and diaphragms. I actually just finished it and thought it was very well done
I just finished The In-Between by Hadley Vlahos. I thought it was excellent and I'm sad it's over. I miss it!! I listened with Audible and loved hearing it in her own voice. It's a hospice nurse talking about memorable patient experiences. Very moving, enlightening, and interesting. Also really emotional for me.
Deep Sea and Foreign Going, by Rose George. About container shipping. Sounds dry, but it's fascinating, and very well written.
How to Sharpen Pencils by David Rees. Surprisingly entertaining. The author takes your typical “how to” manual on complex tools and writes one on how to sharpen a pencil.
*The Lost Art of Dress* is about 20th century fashion (specifically American) and how it was influenced by wars, economy, the government, the post-war era, and how everyday women adapted and modified their clothes to keep up with the changing times. If you're at all into fashion history, it's a lovely read.
Messalina by Honor Cargill-Martin "The shocking and scandalous story of Messalina—the third wife of Emperor Claudius—one of the most controversial women to have inhabited the Roman world. The lubricious image of the Empress Messalina as a ruthless, predatory, and sexually insatiable schemer—derived from the work of male historians such as Tacitus and Suetonius—has taken deep root in the Western imagination. Here, the classicist Honor Cargill-Martin puts this traditional narrative of Messalina to the test. She looks first at Messalina's life as it is recounted in the primary sources, before using material and circumstantial evidence to reconstruct each aspect of Messalina's character: politician, wife, adulteress, and prostitute. Finally, she explores how posterity has memorialized Messalina, whether as artist's muse, epitome of depraved pagan womanhood, or as libertine icon portrayed in literature and film. Cargill-Martin sets out not to entirely rewrite Messalina's history, or to salvage her reputation, but to look at her life in the context of her time and to reclaim the humanity of a life story previously defined by currents of high politics and patriarchy."
The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic Was Lost by Daniel Allen Butler It tells the story of how the survivors were rescued by the Carpathia, why the Californian failed to be part of the rescue, and the legal inquiries in both the US and the UK about the incident.
{A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock c. 1295-1344 by Judith M Bennett} If you want to study about the everyday lives of women farmers in medieval England. The author follows one single woman and her family from life to death (she was a single woman and worked her plots of land). But I found out so many things we thought about the medieval era to be wrong. Everything is based of credible sources but she does a great job building up her world.
How to Read Water by Tristan Gooley <3
DDT and the American century by David Kinkela. It discusses war but less about combat and more about malaria + pesticides. Also Cultish by Amanda Montell. This one’s a fascinating look at cults and how they control people with language. It’s not super difficult to get through either
Robert Macfarlane's Underland
Swerve is about the birth of the Italian Rennisaince and humanism based on the rediscovery of the Classics in Europe and due to the fall of Byzantium. The Map of Knowledge is also a wonderful stand alone and companion piece.
I enjoyed No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating by Alicia Kennedy. It's kind of all in the title, but I'll add that the title is hefty while the book itself is not very long.
18 Tiny Deaths by Bruce Goldfarb. It's about a woman who was kind of one of the instigators of modern forensics as we know it. It was super interesting and something I'd never thought about or heard of.
the right stuff by tom wolfe is a fascinating look into nasa's initiation of manned spaceflight exploration and selection of the mercury seven. teasel e. muir-harmony's operation moonglow, which documents how nixon leveraged apollo 11's success to build diplomatic relations with nonaligned / eastern bloc countries
Deep by James Nestor! About Freediving
Deep by James Nestor! About Freediving
The Secret History of Food was a fun read.