Two Years Before the Mast

That which was can never be again. After twenty-four years Richard Henry Dana, Jr. returned to the west coast of America to retrace some of the arduous steps he’d made as an ordinary sailor aboard the ship Pilgrim. He found that so much had changed that he could barely recognize some of the places he’d been as a hide collector.

Dana’s original journey started because of difficulties with his eyes as an academic student at Harvard. Like many of his contemporaries, the sea held the possibility of both a cure and high romance.

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Freakonomics

How much time would you spend to find out that most of the ideas you have, “conventional wisdom” is another way of putting it, were wrong?

Leavitt and Dubner put this book together because the former is a peculiar sort of economist and the latter is a fair-to-middling journalist, and they didn’t want to tempt fate by refusing to work together. Their publisher thought the book should be classified as a “business” book, but it is anything but that.

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Intellectual Morons: How Ideology makes smart people fall for stupid ideas

Daniel Flynn could have easily titled this book The Iconoclast’s Bible. In his discussion of each of the “icons” that he “clasts” he meticulously examines what they have said and compares it to what they have done. None of the various people and their ideas can escape the rigorous peeling back of the onionskin that has been carefully laid over their sayings and doings.

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Firewall

Henning Mankell delves deeper into detective Kurt Wallender’s psyche in this extremely complicated novel of modern vulnerability, both of the world and of Wallender himself.

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The White Lioness

Henning Mankell’s detective, Kurt Wallender, has to confront himself in this novel. He starts a labyrinth of clues without any understanding of what they all mean. A woman goes missing, her husband says that she won’t be found; there are a pair of handcuffs hidden in the wife’s dresser that the husband knows nothing about.

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Known and Unknown, a memoir

The prisms that we see national and international life through often distort the events we’re trying to make sense of rather than break them down into discrete, understandable elements.

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The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

Robert Lewis Taylor published this book in 1958 and won a Pulitzer Prize for his efforts.

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