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“So Boundless an Affluence of Sublime Mountain Beauty...” When John Muir First Encountered Yosemite

“So Boundless an Affluence of Sublime Mountain Beauty...” When John Muir First Encountered Yosemite

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Secrets in Amber: How Trees Help Preserve Essential Prehistory

Secrets in Amber: How Trees Help Preserve Essential Prehistory

Daniel Lewis on the Millennia-Long History of Insects, and What It Can Teach Us

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The Birds of Northern Manhattan: On Vanishing Human and Non-Human Habitats

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Lost Boys: On a Hidden Fraternity of the Forsaken in the American West

Lost Boys: On a Hidden Fraternity of the Forsaken in the American West

Jim Mangan and Judith Freeman Chronicle Everyday Life in a Disintegrating Community

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The Crooked Timber of the Mind: On the Rise of “Autojournalism”

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How an Icelandic Bird Led to the Discovery of Human-Caused Extinction

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Rick Bass on What Hunting Taught Hemingway About Writing

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