Stories by Thevet

Frankenstein's Sheep

Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess

Mau Piailug's Star Compass

The Great American Travel Book: The book that helped revive a genre

What's the Weirdest Way to Say "River" in China?

Into the Sands of Time: Exploring Egypt's White and Black Deserts

Time for a Demotion: We aren't as special as we think

Africa wants to redraw the world map

Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropófago (1928)

Mental Health and the 17th-Century Ship's Doctor

Romain Du Roy

Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and Political Citizenship

An Unholy Alliance

I solved the century-old mystery of a shipwreck survivor

Swahili on the Road

Man of Glass: Boccaccio: A Biography

Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

The European wood pigeon helped me appreciate its omnipresent city cousins

The Travel Writer's Dilemma: Share, or Gatekeep?

Cannibal Crusaders

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