6/30/2023 0 Comments Tillie walden on a sunbeam![]() ![]() This is when the heated debates arose, as we pored over research and advocated for favorites. Then the really hard part began: whittling down an overwhelming number of choices into one winner and one runner-up in each category. ![]() What they came back with was impressive-the research memo for this package was 117 pages long. Our writers are constantly out there chasing adventure and collecting information on exciting lodging, trails, rivers, beaches, road trips, and other things to do. Next we tapped our vast network of expert travel writers, many of whom have been working with Outside for 20-plus years. This time out, our travel editors unanimously decided to celebrate trips in the United States, because the pandemic reinforced what we’ve long known: there is a bounty of spectacular American destinations to share. Creating our annual Travel Awards package takes months of work by a large team. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Man After Man by Dougal Dixon![]() By introducing us to fictitious examples of these factual processes, his book is not only great fun to read, but also has real scientific value” - from the introduction by Desmond Morris He has created his fauna of the future so painstakingly that each kind of animal teaches us an important lesson about the known processes of past evolution. But in doing this he has never allowed himself to become too outlandish in his invention. ![]() Setting his scenario in the distant future, about 50 million years from now, he has given the members of his new animal kingdom time to undergo dramatic changes in structure and behaviour. By waving a time-wand and eliminating today’s dominant species, including man, he has been able to watch, through his mind’s eye, the lesser animals gradually taking over as the major occupants of the earth’s surface. “Dougal Dixon has given himself the intriguing task of contemplating a future evolution on our own planet, closely based on species that exist at present. Back in print for the first time in over a decade, and featuring a new introduction from the author and updates based on scientific discoveries made in the 37 years since its initial publication, this new edition of Dougal Dixon’s lavishly illustrated speculative zoology imagines the strange creatures that might evolve in a distant future after the extinction of man. ![]() ![]() ![]() While political adversity sets the country on edge, Nefertari becomes the wife of Ramesses the Great. ![]() Yet all of Egypt opposes this union between the rising star of a new dynasty and the fading star of an old, heretical one. Soon Nefertari catches the eye of the Crown Prince, and despite her family’s history, they fall in love and wish to marry. But this changes when she is taken under the wing of the Pharaoh’s aunt, then brought to the Temple of Hathor, where she is educated in a manner befitting a future queen. Nefertari is pushed aside, an unimportant princess left to run wild in the palace. The girl’s deceased family has been branded as heretical, and no one in Egypt will speak their names. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth Dynasty’s royal family–with the exception of Nefertari, the niece of the reviled former queen, Nefertiti. The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. ![]() |