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Alex Hutchinson returns with a fresh, provocative investigation into how exploration, uncertainty, and risk shape our behaviour and help us find meaning. Off the beaten path, following unmarked trails, we are wired to explore. More than just a need to get outside, the search for the unknown is a primal urge that has shaped the history of our species and continues to mold our behaviour in ways we are only beginning to understand. In fact, the latest neuroscience suggests that exploration in any form – whether it’s trying a new restaurant, changing careers, or deciding to run a marathon – is an essential ingredient of human life. Exploration, it turns out, isn’t merely a hobby – it’s our story. In this book, Hutchinson refutes the myth that, in our fully mapped digital world, the age of exploration is dead.
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In ‘There Is Nothing for You Here’, a celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia – and draws on her personal journey out of poverty, and her unique perspectives as an historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to our forgotten places.
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Before he was secretly dispatched by Queen Elizabeth to circumnavigate the globe, or was called upon to save England from the Spanish Armada, Francis Drake was perhaps the most wanted – and successful – pirate ever to sail. Nicknamed ‘El Draque’ by the Spaniards who placed a bounty on his head, the notorious red-haired, hot-tempered Drake pillaged galleons laden with New World gold and silver, stealing a vast fortune for his queen – and himself. The relationship between Drake and Queen Elizabeth is the missing link in our understanding of the rise of the British Empire, and its importance has not been fully described or appreciated. Framed around Drake’s key voyages as a window into this crucial moment in British history, this book is a rousing adventure narrative entwining epic historical themes with intimate passions.
