A list of stress-free beach reading for the beach-deprived.
Perhaps for the armchair adventurer, travel essays still offer undimmed pleasure, but who else wants to read about the glorious places it feels like we’ll never get to see in person? The solution: great travel writing about places you neverto go to.
Robert Macfarlane is regarded by many as the greatest living travel and nature writer, andpublished last year, is his masterpiece. But while most of Macfarlane’s writings on ancient pathways and mountain climbing leave me wanting to strap on my hiking boots,gorgeously recounts Macfarlane’s journeys to unwelcoming sites beneath the surface of the earth—a cave where a trapped spelunker slowly suffocated on his own exhalations as rescuers frantically tried to rescue him, a nuclear waste repository off the coast of Finland, gigantic sinkholes, places where horrid, toxic things long preserved in the permafrost are thawing into the light. It’s all very awe-inspiring but not the least bit inviting. Plus, an added bonus of readingFinally, one alternative to dreaming of other places is to better understand what’s around us right now. David Allen Sibley’s lushly illustratedmakes looking out the window more rewarding, especially if you’ve set up a feeder. Sibley unfolds the mysteries of the tiny winged dinosaurs that flit past us every day: their surprising capacity for reason and emotion, their complex methods of communication, their varied family lives. There’s a lot more going on out there than most of us realize, and the fewer opportunities we have to interfere with the lives of these remarkable creatures, the more they are flourishing. So let them have the world again for a little while longer while we hunker down to read another book or two or five. We’ll get it back soon enough.
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