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Wanderlust: A History of Walking

by Rebecca Solnit

bookshelves: essay, history, currently-reading

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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: memoir, currently-reading

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The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age

by Stanisław Lem

bookshelves: economics, mythology, philosophy, politics, science-nature, short-story, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in January 1993

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