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The Crossing
By Sophie Matterson
Allen & Unwin, Memoir
336pp, $34.99
In 2016, Sophie Matterson left her job in media, and her conventional life, in the pursuit of something more. By 2021, she had become the first woman to complete the 4750km crossing of Australia, walking her beloved camels Jude, Delilah, Charlie, Clayton, and Mac from Shark Bay in Western Australia to Byron Bay in northern New South Wales – a feat for which she was awarded the Australian Geographic Spirit of Adventure Award. The Crossing is the story of one woman finding herself and her purpose, and it is every bit as impassioned as it sounds.
The Wager
By David Grann
Simon & Schuster, History
352pp, $34.99
Any avid reader of The New Yorker knows the true talents of staff writer, David Grann. He is also No.1 New York Times best-selling author, whose award-winning books have been adapted to film and television by directors Martin Scorsese and James Gray, and starred Hollywood royalty asuch as Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Tom Holland, Robert Patterson, and Tom Hiddleston. The Wager is Grann’s telling of the spectacular true story of a British company of naval officers and crew that became stranded on an isolated island off the coast of Patagonia. Featuring vicious storms, a shipwreck, murder, and mutinous anarchy, The Wager is as captivating as...