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‘Dad Said: We’re Going to Follow Captain Cook’: How an Endless Round-the-World Voyage Stole My Childhood
“In 1976, Suzanne Heywood’s father decided to take the family on a three-year sailing ‘adventure’ – and then just kept going. It was a journey into fear, isolation and danger.”
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The Strange Survival of Guinness World Records
“For more than half a century, one organisation has been cataloguing all of life’s superlatives.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we have stories from Amelia Tait, Dan Zak, Daniel Kolitz, Geoffrey Mak, Danielle Carr, Leon Dische Becker, Amber A’Lee Frost, P.E. Moskowitz, Joshua Tempelhof, Elenda Comay del Junco, Kendall Waldman, Devon Fredericksen, and J.D. Daniels.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we’re recommending stories by Zarlasht Halaimzai, Gloria Liu, E. Jean Carroll, Amy Margolis, and Chris Colin.
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Three Abandoned Children, Two Missing Parents And a 40-year Mystery
“Good people, she felt, end up doing bad things for many reasons.”
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No Coach, No Agent, No Ego: the Incredible Story of the ‘Lionel Messi of Cliff Diving’
“Gary Hunt is an enigma. He trains with the intensity of a modern athlete, but relaxes like a sportsman of a bygone era.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
“Featuring reads from Grace Glass and Sasha Tycko, Max Graham, Alex Blasdel, James Somers, and Ben Goldfarb.”
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‘We Can’t Even Get Basic Care Done’: What it’s Like Doing 12-Hour Shifts on an Understaffed NHS Ward
“When I started as a healthcare assistant on a hospital ward for older patients, it was clear how bad things had got.”
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The Balkans’ Alternative Postal System: An Ad-Hoc Courier’s Tale
“Across this fractured region, informal networks rule. So if you need to send something, ask someone who’s already going that way.”
