Lost (overviews & introductions)

Print:

• A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
• The Lost Art of Finding Our Way by John Edward Huth
• Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology by Caroline Paul, Wendy MacNaughton
• The Lost History of Aztec & Maya by Charles Phillips
• The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard

Bonfire of the Vanities: Extremism the Harbinger of Loss

Print:

• Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for Renaissance Florence by Lauro Martines
• The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope by Desmond Seward
• The Impossible Museum: The Best Art You’ll Never See by Céline Delavaux

Online:

• Girolamo Savonarola – Augnet
• Sandro Botticelli – The National Gallery
• The Dark Side of Art: Botticelli, Lorenzo and Savonarola – Brenda Harness, Fine Art Touch
• Execution of Florentine friar Savonarola – History Today
• Heresy – PBS
• The Original Bonfire of the Vanities:  Savonarola. No Ayatollah. The Conflicted Image of a Revolutionary Prophet – Corndancer.com

Scurvy: Lost & Found

Print:

• Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail by Stephen R. Brown
• Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century by Kevin Fong
• A Treatise of the Scurvy, in Three Parts: Containing an Inquiry Into the Nature, Causes, and Cure, of That Disease by James Lind

Online:

• Scurvy: By the End, Death is a Mercy – Atlas Obscura
• How Scurvy Was Cured, then the Cure Was Lost – Mental Floss
• Forgotten Knowledge: The Science of Scurvy – The Naked Scientists
• Scurvy’s Cure – by Stephen R. Bown, Lost Magazine
• How We Lost the Cure for Scurvy by Micah Goulart, Ingenial
• The Nutritional Impossibility of Australia – Edible Geography
• Scott and Scurvy – Idle Words

Amelia Earhart: The Woman Who Flew into the Sunset

Print:

• Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance by Ric Gillespie
• The Sound of Wings: the Life of Amelia Earhart by Mary S. Lovell
• The Earhart Enigma: Retracing Amelia’s Last Flight by Dave Horner

Online:

• Amelia Earhart Plane Found? Sonar Image Of Possible Wreckage May Suggest Earhart Died On Island – Huffington Post
• Women’s History Month: Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific – Communities Digital News
• Coconut Crabs Eat Everything from Kittens to, Maybe, Amelia Earhart – Smithsonian Magazine

Lost San Francisco: Earthquakes and Fires and Progress! Oh! My!

Print:

• San Francisco’s Lost Landmarks by James R. Smith
• Lost San Francisco by Dennis Evanosky, Eric J. Kos
• San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires by Dennis Smith
• Denial of Disaster: The Untold Story and Photographs of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 by Gladys Hansen
• San Francisco: The City’s Sights and Secrets by Leah Garchik

Online:

• Found SF
• San Francisco’s Buried Ships – SF Genealogy
• Moving the Dead: San Francisco Cemeteries – Sparkletack
• The Cliff House Project
• SF Public Library Photo Archive

Tenochtitlan: Lost Beneath Mexico City

Print:

• The Aztecs by Brian M. Fagan
• The Toltec Heritage: From The Fall Of Tula To The Rise Of Tenochtitlán by Nigel Davies
• Aztecs by Eduardo Matos & Felipe Solis Olguin. Moctezuma, Felipe Solis Olgulin, Peter Sawbridge

Online:

• Tenochtitlán: History of Aztec Capital – LiveScience
• Tenochtitlán – Ancient History Encyclopedia
• Tlaloc – Encyclopaedia Brittanica
• Tlaloc – Ancient History Encyclopedia
• Huitzilopochtli – Encyclopaedia Brittanica

Directional Impairment & the Art of Getting Lost

Print:

• Theory of the Derive and Other Situationist Writing on the City by Libero Andreotti, Xavier Costa

Online:

• Theory of the Dérive – Nothingness.org
• The Resurrection of Guy Debord – The Guardian
• Getting Lost: What Happens When the Brain’s ‘GPS’ Mapping Malfunctions – Medical Daily
• Get Lost – Neurolab
• Lost? Evidence That Sense of Direction Is Innate  – Scientific American

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For each salon, we  invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. These reading lists, along with selected excerpts, illustrations and summaries of each month’s talks are compiled in our monthly Odd Salon Journal. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Beth Abdallah, Chris Carrico, Amy Widdowson, Barry Synoground and Michael Sollazzo. Thank you!