Speaker’s Book:
- Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before, by Tony Horwitz
The Actor & the Assassin: The Greatest Hamlet You’ve Never Heard Of
Online:
- (Podcast) Episode 11: The Brothers Booth – The Memory Palace
Print:
- Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell.
- My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy, by Nora Titone.
Justin Quimby ~ To the North Pole by Airship
Print:
- First Crossing of the Polar Sea, by Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth
- My Polar Flights, by Umberto Nobile
- The Great Dirigibles: Their Triumphs & Disasters, by John Toland
Besha Grey ~ Doming the Duomo
Online:
- Il Duomo – National Geographic
- The Apollo Project of the Golden Renaissance: Brunelleschi’s Dome – Nora Hamerman and Claudio Rossi
Print:
- Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, by Ross King
- The Lives of the Artists, by Giorgio Vasari
- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, by Benvenuto Cellini
The Road to Rashid: Translating Egypt’s Hieroglyphics
Online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYHyk8bGke8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_33Q7vIdH4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWqRwC64qFU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_AiSTJxtJg
Print:
- Egypt: The World of the Pharoahs, by Regine Schulz & Matthias Seidel
- The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt, by John Ray
- Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francoise Champollion, by Andrew Robinson
- Lonely Planet Guidebook to Egypt, by Anthony Sattin and Jessica Lee
No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham & the City Beautiful
Online:
- (Film) Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City – The Archimedia Workshop
- Daniel Burnham’s San Francisco Plan – Curbed San Francisco
- Daniel Burnham’s Twin Peaks Vision – Outside Lands
Print:
- Daniel H. Burnham, Architect: Planner of Cities, by Charles Moore
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, by Erik Larson
Life, Death & the 1999 Everest Millennium Expedition
Online:
- High Exposure, Epilogue – David Breashears
- Doc on Top – Stanford Medicine
- The Day Mallory was Found – PBS Online
Print:
- Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer
- Left For Dead, by Beck Weathers
- The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest, by Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt
- Everest: Eighty Years of Triumph and Tragedy, By Peter Gillman and Leni Gillman
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. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Lilia Gutnik, Justin Quimby, Besha Grey, Paige Lawrence, Alexander Razo-Myers, and Dr. Rich Lee. Thank you!
