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How Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton Became an International Celebrity

How Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton Became an International Celebrity

Glorifying Disaster in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

By Edward J. Larson | March 16, 2018

Did Thoreau Actually Live on Walden Pond?

Did Thoreau Actually Live on Walden Pond?

"A Lake is the Landscape’s Most Beautiful and Expressive Feature"

By Robert Thorson | March 12, 2018

Wilder Things: Modern Life Among the Foxes and Coyotes

Wilder Things: Modern Life Among the Foxes and Coyotes

From London to Arlington, Investigating the Urban Wilderness

By Aminatta Forna | March 6, 2018

It's Not Easy Running a Retirement Home for Old Dancing Bears

It's Not Easy Running a Retirement Home for Old Dancing Bears

Small-Town Bulgarians Wonder Why the Bears Get Strawberries

By witoldszablowski | March 6, 2018

The Horse: Beloved Metaphor of Your Favorite 19th-Century Novelists

The Horse: Beloved Metaphor of Your Favorite 19th-Century Novelists

How One Animal Came to Symbolize Love and Broken Marriages

By Ulrich Raulff | February 12, 2018

Appalachia Isn't the Reason We're Living in Trump Country

Appalachia Isn't the Reason We're Living in Trump Country

Elizabeth Catte on the Myths Shaping the Region, and Who Profits from Them

By Elizabeth Catte | February 8, 2018

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Laura Ingalls Wilder and One of The Greatest Natural Disasters in American History

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Miranda Weiss on Moving to Alaska, and Choosing to Stay There

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Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

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How Wolves Shape the Natural World

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The Fall and Rise of the American Wolf

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