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Georgetown Gone Wild | A TFT Exclusive
In the recent New York Times-acclaimed book Wild Coast, British travel writer John Gimlette traverses the untamed world of South America’s Guyana. In this TFT-exclusive ex... ...read more
Going Greenlandic
As a magazine writer and journalist, I have had the lucky chance to travel the world a considerable amount, covering culture, design, and art, among other things. Not to complai... ...read more
TFT Exclusive Excerpt: L.A. Times Book Critic on “The Lost Art of Reading” and the Discovery of a Rare London Bookstall
In David L. Ulin’s new book The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time (Sasquatch: 152 pp., $12.95), the Los Angeles Times book critic discusses the pl... ...read more
TFT Exclusive Excerpt: The Black Nile by Dan Morrison
Dan Morrison’s new book, The Black Nile, chronicles his journey along the Nile River from its source at Lake Victoria to its exit 3,600 miles later at the Mediterranean Se... ...read more
TFT Exclusive Excerpt: Rachel Shukert on Why Amsterdam Doesn’t Change
In Everything is Going to be Great, the new, hilarious book from TFT’s Rachel Shukert, a young actress jumps aboard a traveling theatrical production to experience one imp... ...read more
Deadliest Sea: The Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
TFT Exclusive Excerpt from the new book Deadliest Sea by author Kalee Thompson (National Geographic Adventure, Popular Science, Wired). Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter pilots Bri... ...read more
High Flying: How We Got Marijuana through JFK
Readers of my work may know that as a cancer survivor I have taken to dabbling in necessary medical tourism — the trendy practice wherein a lucky patient visits different citie... ...read more
Alain de Botton on a Future Without Flying
Imagine a world without flying: What would it be like if there were no planes in the sky? In a future world without aeroplanes, children would gather at the feet of old men, and... ...read more
The Cuero Chupacabra: My Search for a Mythical Hairless Coyote
Back in the fall of 2007, before anyone knew for sure that the Cuero chupacabra was really just a hairless coyote, I drove down to the South of Texas, past tiny towns with name... ...read more
My [Maori] New Zealand: Hemp, Fashion, Cannabalism, & More
Part of the East [ed note: by "east" Cook means "west"] Coast of this Country was first discovered by Abel Tasman in 1642, and by him called New Zeland; he, however, never lande... ...read more
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