West: The American Cowboy
Anouk Masson Krantz
4.9 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Quest Continues
Graham Hancock and Audible Studios
4.8 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham
4.8 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Coming into the Country
John McPhee
4.5 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
Christopher McDougall, Nicholas Guy Smith, et al.
4.5 on Amazon
2 HN comments
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Randolph Hogan
4.4 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Yosemite: The Complete Guide: Yosemite National Park (Color Travel Guide)
James Kaiser
4.9 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Japan: The Cookbook
Nancy Singleton Hachisu
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
A Table: Recipes for Cooking and Eating the French Way
Rebekah Peppler and Joann Pai
4.6 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Christopher Moore, Fisher Stevens, et al.
4.7 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Thomas Guide: Los Angeles and Orange Counties Street Guide 55th Edition (Thomas Guide Los Angeles & Orange Counties Street Guide (Pro))
Rand McNally
4.8 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Robert Macfarlane
4.6 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Blue Highways: A Journey into America
William Least Heat Moon and William Least Heat-Moon
4.5 on Amazon
1 HN comments
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
Tembi Locke
4.5 on Amazon
1 HN comments
gfxgirlonSep 21, 2020
I used to buy the new Thomas Guide (the 1 inch thick paper map book to find my way around Los Angeles). Having Google Maps on my phone has massively changed that. In the middle we had Nav systems but even then I now live somewhere where public transportation is the norm and being able to ask Google Maps how to get somewhere as been a life changing experience. As one concrete example, from 2000-2010 I pretty much never took the bus except for the one that went by my house. Now, since Google Maps will tell me which bus to take it's so trivial just to take whatever it tells me.
As for VR in arcades in the 80s they were remotely as good as 4 yr old VR today. not even in the same league. That's like comparing a 1970s calculator to a smartphone.