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Dewey Decimal Nonfiction Challenge - 2017

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Å sette verden i brann: En ateist skriver om Jesus (Norwegian, "An atheist writes about Jesus")
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Cassandra, I'm down for 7 out of 10 right now.

Challenge Accepted: January 1, 2017
Challenge Completed: July 27, 2017
I'm in for ten in any combination of categories I find interesting (minimum of three categories).
Last updated through:
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300 - 399 - Devoured: From Chicken Wings to Kale Smoothies--How What We Eat Defines Who We Are 394.1209 (1-25-17)
Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael Ruhlman 381.456 6-10-17
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600 - 699 - Molly on the Range by Molly Yeh 641.5973 6-9-17
What to Eat by Marion Nestle 613.2 6-18-17
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach 612.3 7-21-17
700 - 799 - Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe by Becky Wade 796.42 2-20-17
800 - 899 - Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal by Amy Krouse Rosenthal 818.607 6-23-17
J. K. Rowling: A Biography by Connie Ann Kirk 823.914 6-27-17
I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places by Lisa Scottoline 818.602 7-22-17
900 - 999 - The Who, the What, and the When: 65 Artists Illustrate the Secret Sidekicks of History 920.02 (1-13-17)

Really interesting going through my Kindle non-fiction books to see where they fit - quite surprised that I haven't found anything in the 000 and 400.
THE DEWEY DECIMAL CHALLENGE (no..."
I loved Not My Father's Son. Alan Cummings is fabulous. I hope you enjoy it Clare.

000-099
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
100-199
Man's Search for Meaning (150.195) ✔
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion (152.41) ✔
Lying ✔
200-299
The Atheist's Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions
300-399
Her Best-Kept Secret: Inside the Private Lives of Women Who Drink (362.292082) ✔
Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl ✔
400-499
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (420.9) ✔
500-599
The Selfish Gene
600-699
The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic (616.8527) ✔
When Breath Becomes Air ✔
700-799
I Am Spock (791.45028092) ✔
800-899
900-999
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers ✔
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Dewey Decimal Challenge
10/10
1. 000-099: Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great Books (028.90973) 3/5 ****
2. 100-199: The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember (170.44) 2/15 ***
3. 200-299: Norse Mythology (293)****
4. 300-399: Water: Exploring the Blue Planet (333.9) 2/14 ***
5. 400-499: What Kind of Creatures Are We? (401) 5/22 ****
6. 500-599: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (591.51) 4/6 ****
7. 600-699: Cooking For Two: 2010 ( 641.5612) 3/7 ***
8. 700-799: Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Discover Some of the World's Greatest Museums (701.1) 1/1 ***
9. 800-899: Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women (814.6) 1/13 ***
10. 900-999: Strangers in a New Land (970.01) 1/16 ***
10/10

5/10
1. 000-099:
2. 100-199: So You've Been Publicly Shamed 01/26/16
3. 200-299: Straight Talk About Cults 01/24/17
4. 300-399: In Cold Blood 01/23/17
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6. 500-599:
7. 600-699:
8. 700-799: March: Book One 02/19/17
9. 800-899: Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman 01/31/17
10. 900-999:

0-099: Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press, The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
100-199: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
200-299: Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Gospel Truth
300-399: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
400-499: The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words, Gender and Discourse
500-599: Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul, The Weather of the Future,
600-699: Food Is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America, E. T. May's Homeward Bound 20th(twentieth) Rev Upd edition (Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era Paperback )
700-799: Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year,
Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom: Essays on the BBC Series
800-899: The Gutenberg Revolution: A History of Print Culture, Unoriginal Misunderstanding - Press Freedom in Early America and Interpretation of the First Amendment
900-999: Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

5 / 10
000 - 099 The Dialogue Thesaurus: A Fiction Writer's Sourcebook of Dialogue Tags and Phrases by Dahlia Evans
100 - 199 Life on the Other Side: A Psychic's Tour of the Afterlife by Sylvia Browne
200 - 299
300 - 399
400 - 499 Holly Lisle's Create A Plot Clinic by Holly Lisle
500 - 599
600 - 699 - 1-2-3 Magic Teen: Communicate, Connect, and Guide Your Teen to Adulthood by Thomas W. Phelan
700 - 799
800 - 899
900 - 999 - The Death of Hitler by Ada Petrova

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000-099:
True Canadian UFO Stories by John Colombo 001.942
100-199:
The Cozy Life: Rediscover the Joy of the Simple Things Through the Danish Concept of Hygge by Pia Edberg 158.1
200-299:
Murder By Family: The Incredible True Story of a Son's Treachery and a Father's Forgiveness by Kent Whitaker 248.86
300-399:
Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties 371.2
"Moms who Drink and Swear" by Nicole Knepper Dewey 306.87
The New Old Me by Meredith Maran 305.26
Deep Undercover by Jack Barsky 327.12
400-499:
500-599:
"Downstream: Reimagining Water" by Dorothy Christian and Rita Wong 553.7
600-699: Telling Your Child About Their Autism Diagnosis 618.92
The Joy of Doing Nothing 646.7
700-799:
Turning: A Year in the Water by Jessica J. Lee 797.2
800-899:
The Friday Night Knitting Club 813.6
900-999:
A Bold and Dangerous Family by Caroline Moorehead 945.09
8/10


10/10 -- Finished!
✔1. 000-099: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
✔2. 100-199: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
✔3. 200-299: Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths
✔4. 300-399: The Art of War
✔5. 400-499: The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
✔6. 500-599: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
✔7. 600-699: Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
✔8. 700-799: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
✔9. 800-899: Food: A Love Story
✔10. 900-999: Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution

0/10

Haha that's pretty much what I do! I always hit up the staff picks shelves for interesting reads. I never read much nonfiction until the last year or so but the more I read the more into it I get!

9/10 (categories)
000-099:
001.94 The QI Annual
100-199:
155.2 J69w1Who Moved My Cheese Summary
158.1 W663L The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
183.2 Socrates' Defence
200-299:
283.G5 My Prayer Book for Women and Girls
300-399:
381.45002 The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted
400-499:
428 March Hares and Monkeys' Uncles: Origins of the Words and Phrases We Use Every Day
500-599:
600-699:
618.9285882 S96L Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
641.092 B53r Recipe for Life
641.5 Absolute Favourites
700-799:
791(?) Dear Auntie...: Letters to the BBC
791.43 F53s Shockaholic
791.43 F53w Wishful Drinking
791.4502 I Know Nothing!
791.4572 The Wit and Wisdom of Downton Abbey
800-899:
824.079Politics and the English Language
824.912 England Your England
828.802Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
828.9202 Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
895.63 H668n The Guest Cat
900-999
921 S8191 Travels with Charley: In Search of America
941.082092We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End

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[5/10]
000-099. Let's Pretend This Never Happened (2017.03.31, ★★★★☆).
300-399. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2017.07.22, ★★★★☆).
700-799. Adulthood Is a Myth: A Sarah's Scribbles Collection (2017.02.09, ★★★★☆).
800-899. The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances (2017.02.18,★★☆☆☆).
900-999. The Complete Persepolis (2017.03.27, ★★★★☆).

001 - Facts - QI : The Discreetly Plumper Second Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd & John Mitchinson

150 - Psychology- Opening Skinner’s Box by Lauren Skater

235 Christianity - The Private Lives of the Saints by Janina Ramirez

372 Education - Teaching Number Sense by Julia Anghileri

458 Italian Language - Talk Italian Grammar by Alwena Lamping

510 Mathematics - The Elephant in the Classroom by Jo Boaler.

612 Anatomies by Hugh Aldersley-Willuams

796 Cricket - Fatty Batter: How Cricket Saved My Life (then ruined it) by Michael Simkins

823 English & Old English Literature - Becoming Dickens by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.

909 World History - The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan


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000-099
100-199: 170.44 Ordinary Goodness: The Surprisingly Effortless Path to Creating a Life of Meaning and Beauty
200-299
300-399
400-499
500-599: 510.92520973 Hidden Figures
600-699
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800-899
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Completed 0/10
I'm in for all ten categories
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000-099
Books for Living
100-199
Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
200-299
The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality
300-399
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
400-499
The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words
500-599
A Short History of Nearly Everything
600-699
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism
700-799
The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation
800-899
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
900-999
Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
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000-099
Books for Living
100-199
Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
200-299
The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality
300-399
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
400-499
The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words
500-599
A Short History of Nearly Everything
600-699
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism
700-799
The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation
800-899
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
900-999
Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds

Completed: 0/ 5
100-199: Philosophy and psychology - 150: Psychology - 158: Applied Psychology - Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination - J.K. Rowling
300-399: Social Sciences - 360: Social services; associations - 362.1: Physical Illness - Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction - Paul Farmer
600-699: Technology (Applied Sciences) - 640: Home economics & Family Living - 646.7: Personal Grooming - Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - David Allen

14/5
1. The Poetic Museum: Reviving Historic Collections (069)
2. A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France (940)
3. A Plague on All Our Houses: Medical Intrigue, Hollywood, and the Discovery of AIDS
4. Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums (069)
5. In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom (610)
6. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory (363)
7. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts (025)
8. The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon (981)
9. JFK in Ireland (973)
10. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight (968)
11. In Other Words (813)
12. The True Tails of Baker and Taylor: The Library Cats Who Left Their Pawprints on a Small Town . . . and the World (636)
13. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (423)
14. Torn Trousers: A True Story of Courage and Adventure: How A Couple Sacrificed Everything To Escape to Paradise (916)

000-099 (Books of Facts) X
The Book of General Ignorance [031.02]
100-199 X
Jack Canfield's Key to Living the Law of Attraction: A Simple Guide to Creating the Life of Your Dreams [158]
200-299 (Other Religion) X
Encountering Heaven and the After Life [236.2]
300-399 (Social Services) X
Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child [362.733092]
400-499 (Language)
Grammar Girl's 101 Words to Sound Smart [] X
500-5099 (Astronomy) X
Stephen Hawking's Universe: The Cosmos Explained [523.1]
600-699 (Medical Sciences) X
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers [611]
700-799 (Photography) X
Underwater puppies [779.329772]
800-899 (Classical Greek) X
Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet [884.01]
900-999 (Africa) X
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart [916.7510434]
Completed 10/10

1. 000-099:
2. 100-199: Telepathie und Hellsehen - Was wissen wir darüber? (Parapsychology)
3. 200-299: Spurensuche (Religion)
4. 300-399: Die 10 Größten Erziehungsirrtümer (Education)
5. 400-499: Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change (Linguistics)
6. 500-599: Katastrophen der Erdgeschichte – globales Artensterben? (Paleontology)
7. 600-699:
8. 700-799:
9. 800-899: Von Herakles bis Spider-Man (Literary didactics)
10. 900-999: Australien (History)
Completed: 7/5
Last update: end of December

3/3
1. 510.92 Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
2. 629.45 Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey
3. 940.545973 In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors

This looks like a great stretch for me. I'd like to try for one from each category too.

4/10
000-099: Computer Science, Bibliographies, Library Sciences, Encyclopedias & Books of Facts, Associations, Organizations & Museums, News Media, Journalism & Publishing, General Collections, Manuscripts & Rare Books
100-199: Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Parapsychology & Occultism, Philosophical Schools of Thought, Psychology, Logic, Ethics, Ancient, Medieval & Eastern Philosophy, Modern Western Philosophy
200-299: Religion, Natural Theology, Bible, Christian Theology, Christian Moral & Devotional Theology, Christian Orders & Local Church, Christian Social Theology, Christian Church History, Christian Denominations & Sects, Other & Comparative Religions
300-399: Social Sciences, Sociology, General Statistics, Political Science, Economics, Law, Public Administration, Social Services, Education, Commerce, Customs, Etiquette, Folklore
Environmental Geology by Edward A. Keller (02 Jun)
400-499: Language, Linguistics, English & Old English, German, Romance Languages, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italic, Latin, Hellenic, Classical Greek, Other
500-599: Sciences, Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Paleontology, Life Sciences, Plants, Zoological Sciences
600-699: Technology (Applied Sciences), Medical Sciences, Engineering, Agriculture, Home Economics & Family Living, Management, Chemical Engineering, Manufacturing, Buildings
The Code Book by Simon Singh (22 Mar)
700-799: Arts, Civic and Landscape Art, Architecture, Plastic Arts and Sculpture, Drawing & Decorative Arts, Painting, Graphic Arts, Photography, Music, Recreational & Performing Arts
800-899: Literature, American Literature, English & Old English Literature, German Literature, Literatures of Romance Languages, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italic, Latin, Hellenic, Classical Greek
The Truth Behind A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lois H. Gresh (02 Sep)
900-999: History, Geography/Travel, Ancient History, General History of Europe, General History of Asia, Far East, Africa, North America, South America, Other
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman (01 Sep)

Please put me down for 10 books (one per category):
000-099
100-199
200-299
300-399
400-499
500-599
600-699
700-799
800-899
900-999 - 973 - "A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution" by C. Barkin
1/10

000-099: Computer Science, Bibliographies, Library Sciences, Encyclopedias & Books of Facts, Associations, Organizations & Museums, News Media, Journalism & Publishing, General Collections, Manuscripts & Rare Books
My pick:
100-199: Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Parapsychology & Occultism, Philosophical Schools of Thought, Psychology, Logic, Ethics, Ancient, Medieval & Eastern Philosophy, Modern Western Philosophy
My pick:
How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use (158.1 PAT 2016)
200-299: Religion, Natural Theology, Bible, Christian Theology, Christian Moral & Devotional Theology, Christian Orders & Local Church, Christian Social Theology, Christian Church History, Christian Denominations & Sects, Other & Comparative Religions
My pick:
300-399: Social Sciences, Sociology, General Statistics, Political Science, Economics, Law, Public Administration, Social Services, Education, Commerce, Customs, Etiquette, Folklore
My picks: Joyride: Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet(388.3472 BIR 2010)
Saroo Brierly "A Long Way Home (306.874 BRI 2014)
400-499: Language, Linguistics, English & Old English, German, Romance Languages, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italic, Latin, Hellenic, Classical Greek, Other
My pick:
500-599: Sciences, Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Paleontology, Life Sciences, Plants, Zoological Sciences
My pick: Fun Science: A Guide to Life, the Universe and Why Science Is So Awesome (500 MCD 2016)
600-699: Technology (Applied Sciences), Medical Sciences, Engineering, Agriculture, Home Economics & Family Living, Management, Chemical Engineering, Manufacturing, Buildings
My pick:
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (613 POLLAN 2008)
700-799: Arts, Civic and Landscape Art, Architecture,
Arts and Sculpture, Drawing & Decorative Arts, Painting, Graphic Arts, Photography, Music, Recreational & Performing Arts
My pick: Big Mushy Happy Lump (741.5973 AND 2017)
800-899: Literature, American Literature, English & Old English Literature, German Literature, Literatures of Romance Languages, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italic, Latin, Hellenic, Classical Greek
My pick: Aeschylus, 'Libation Bearers' (882)
Away with Words: An Irreverent Tour Through the World of Pun Competitions
900-999: History, Geography/Travel, Ancient History, General History of Europe, General History of Asia, Far East, Africa, North America, South America, Other
My pick:

Duration: January 1, 2017 – December 1, 2017
Does this Challenge not go to the end of December?

600s - 629.4072
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt (3 stars)

4/10:
299 The Satanic Bible
306.61 Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment
591.96711 The Bafut Beagles
909.07 - God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades
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The Death of Hitler: The Full Story With New Evidence from Secret Russian Archives (other topics)
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (other topics)
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination (other topics)
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Lois H. Gresh (other topics)
Diane Ackerman (other topics)
Edward A. Keller (other topics)
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Really interesting going through my Kindle non-fiction books to see where they fit - quite surprised that I haven't found anything in the 000 and 400.
Completed 6/6
THE DEWEY DECIMAL CHALLENGE (non-fiction)
Duration: January 1, 2017 – December 1, 2017
The Dewey Decimal System is the way libraries organize their non-fiction books. It was created in 1876 by Melvil Dewey and has been changed much throughout the years.
The goal of this challenge is to read as many books with different (general) Dewey decimal classes as possible. For the purpose of this challenge, we’ll split the Dewey Decimal System into 100s, for a total of 10 larger categories. More in depth information on classes of the Dewey Decimal System can be found here: List of Dewey Decimal Classes.
Categories:
000-099: Computer Science, Bibliographies, Library Sciences, Encyclopedias & Books of Facts, Associations, Organizations & Museums, News Media, Journalism & Publishing, General Collections, Manuscripts & Rare Books
100-199: Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Parapsychology & Occultism, Philosophical Schools of Thought, Psychology, Logic, Ethics, Ancient, Medieval & Eastern Philosophy, Modern Western Philosophy
292: Favorite Greek Myths Bob Blaisdell
364: Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders Vincent Bugliosi Feb 2017
400-499: Language, Linguistics, English & Old English, German, Romance Languages, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italic, Latin, Hellenic, Classical Greek, Other
500-599: Sciences, Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Paleontology, Life Sciences, Plants, Zoological Sciences
Options: 510 Alan Turing the enigma / the origin of the species
616: The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism Naoki Higashida Jan 2017
792 Not My Father's Son Alan Cumming Jan 2017
823 Enid Blyton: The Biography Barbara Stoney Mar 2017
919 South: the Endurance Expedition Ernest Shackleton Feb 2017