The New Age of Adventure

Categories: Travel , Outdoors & Nature , Staff Picks , Nonfiction

This was my latest car book, The New Age of Adventure: Ten Years of Great Writing, a collection of pieces from National Geographic’s Adventure magazine.

Essays by Sebastian Junger, Tim Cahill, Peter Matthiessen, and other greats of travel, adventure, and nature writing are collected here. Plus a creepy look at the man-eating lions of Tsavo by Philip Caputo; the account of a stay with the last of the traditional reindeer herders in the far reaches of Russia by Gretel Ehrlich; and a horrifying account of an ebola epidemic by Tom Clynes.

This volume is a little different from earlier collections, as it includes some political writing and war correspondence. But it’s still a look at life on the outer edges by very talented people, and it’s a great read straight through or dipped into at coffee stops.