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A History of the World in 500 Walks
By Sarah Baxter ($28, Thunder Bay Press)
British travel writer Sarah Baxter tackles an ambitious task in this 400-page volume: compiling a list of walkable routes that have shaped natural and human history. These range from a hike in what is now Québec through the crater left by a meteorite crash 350 million years ago, to the Kokoda Track through the mountains of Papua New Guinea, where Japanese and Australian soldiers fought during World War II. Fittingly, the book is organized by…