Articles by Thevet
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The Zen of Ice Climbing (nytimes.com)

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A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived (thetimes.com)

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Struggles for the Future: How has the idea of revolution changed? (thenation.com)

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The Rise and Fall of the US Army Camel Corps (historytoday.com)

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Undefinable yet Indispensable (aeon.co)

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Undefinable yet Indispensable (aeon.co)

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Las Vegas Diaries (thedial.world)

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A new book about the origins of Effective Altruism (newrepublic.com)

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'Killing the Dead' Review: Watch the Graveyard (wsj.com)

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Frankenstein's Sheep (nymag.com)

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Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess (publicdomainreview.org)

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Mau Piailug's Star Compass (wikipedia.org)

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The Great American Travel Book: The book that helped revive a genre (theamericanscholar.org)

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What's the Weirdest Way to Say "River" in China? (feelingthestones.com)

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Into the Sands of Time: Exploring Egypt's White and Black Deserts (nytimes.com)

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Time for a Demotion: We aren't as special as we think (theamericanscholar.org)

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Africa wants to redraw the world map (washingtonpost.com)

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Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropófago (1928) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Mental Health and the 17th-Century Ship's Doctor (historytoday.com)

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Romain Du Roy (wikipedia.org)

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Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and Political Citizenship (publicdomainreview.org)

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An Unholy Alliance (aeon.co)

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I solved the century-old mystery of a shipwreck survivor (thewalrus.ca)

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Swahili on the Road (historytoday.com)

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Man of Glass: Boccaccio: A Biography (literaryreview.co.uk)

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Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724) (publicdomainreview.org)

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The European wood pigeon helped me appreciate its omnipresent city cousins (nytimes.com)

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The Travel Writer's Dilemma: Share, or Gatekeep? (nytimes.com)

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Cannibal Crusaders (historytoday.com)

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Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights (newyorker.com)

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America, América: A New History of the New World (historytoday.com)

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The Last Nomads (thedial.world)

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Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery (historytoday.com)

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W.a.s.t.e. Not: John Scanlan looks for the future in the dustbins of history (thebaffler.com)

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The Merovingians: 'Do-Nothing Kings'? (historytoday.com)

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The Value of Differences: Jennifer Lindsay on Noticing Translation (sydneyreviewofbooks.com)

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Lost City of the Samurai (archaeology.org)

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Are Books Finished (samkahn.substack.com)

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The Dingo's Fate (noemamag.com)

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One Last Ride for Antarctica's 'Ivan the Terra Bus' (atlasobscura.com)

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The Blood on the Keyboard (historynewsnetwork.org)

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A classic of nature writing finds constant renewal in the mountains (washingtonpost.com)

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Peru's Great Urban Experiment (2023) (archaeology.org)

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Traveling Through India on the Himsagar Express (newyorker.com)

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Can you lose your native tongue? (2024) (nytimes.com)

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India's Prettiest Library (travelsofsamwise.substack.com)

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When Ford Madox Ford and Hemingway Started a Journal in Paris (lithub.com)

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Russia's California Colony (historytoday.com)

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The Divine Engineer of Ancient Sichuan (walkingtheworld.substack.com)

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The ancient discovery that put a Silk Road city back on the map (bbc.com)

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A Hardened Detective and an Angry Rock Star: How an Art Fraud Was Cracked (nytimes.com)

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Open Socrates by Agnes Callard review – a design for life (theguardian.com)

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Haniwa (wikipedia.org)

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How saffron became an American cash crop (nytimes.com)

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The Diagnostician of Despair (theamericanscholar.org)

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Charles de Gaulle manuscripts discovered in a safe (smithsonianmag.com)

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Getting Away: Review of Rural Hours (drb.ie)

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Miles of Russian Forest Couldn't Keep These Two Tigers Apart (nytimes.com)

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Parkchester – The Bronx: Last Stop on the Orphan Train (theneighborhoods.substack.com)

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Caving scientists exploring the darkest places on Earth (bbc.com)

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Iceland Spar (wikipedia.org)

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Siberian Exile in Tsarist Russia (historytoday.com)

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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel (historytoday.com)

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The Surprising Social Lives of Pythons (nytimes.com)

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Hello to All That (thedial.world)

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Tickets Are for Remembering (publicbooks.org)

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Islands of the Feral Pigs (hakaimagazine.com)

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A Serious Man: On Bruno Latour (jhiblog.org)

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Lies, intrigue, lawsuits: The last battle for a 'cursed' giant emerald (washingtonpost.com)

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Cheap light transformed civilization (bigthink.com)

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Our Boundless Love for Big Sur May Be Killing It (nytimes.com)

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Why a Minnesota Man Walked Around the World, Traversing 13 Countries (smithsonianmag.com)

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The revival of the beach in twentieth-century Los Angeles (bbc.com)

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How does David Geffen Hall sound? (nytimes.com)

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Researchers Find Cannibalized Victim of 19th-Century Arctic Voyage (nytimes.com)

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The Scramble for Madagascar (historytoday.com)

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Tapia, Tabbi, Tabique, Tabby (placesjournal.org)

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Famed Polynesian island did not succumb to 'ecological suicide,' study argues (science.org)

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The Paradox of the Distance Runner (newrepublic.com)

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Gibbons move with rhythm and intention. Dare we say style? (nytimes.com)

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Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux Review (theguardian.com)

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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World (lrb.co.uk)

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Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back (nature.com)

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Saving Southeast Asia's Sunken Warships (historytoday.com)

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An Ottoman Winter in Toulon (historytoday.com)

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Captain Cook's Contested Claim to Australia (historytoday.com)

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California's Rice Royalty Is Stepping Down (nytimes.com)

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Olympic surfing comes to a 'poisoned' paradise (nytimes.com)

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The medieval 'New England' on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015) (caitlingreen.org)

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The tastes of a restaurant at the end of the world (bbc.com)

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A Cursed Ship and the Fate of Its Sunken Gold (newyorker.com)

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The Paradoxical Paradise of the Garden (newyorker.com)

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Ernest Hemingway's brother established a floating republic in the Caribbean (smithsonianmag.com)

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The Soviet Union's Monster Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner (twz.com)

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Was the Dingo Born to Be Wild? (nytimes.com)

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Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition (wikipedia.org)

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Who Owns Alexander the Great? It's a Diplomatic Minefield (nytimes.com)

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The unending allure of high mountains (noemamag.com)

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Bali's stone sarcophagi included global goods (atlasobscura.com)