Speaker Book:

• Jason and the Argonauts, by Apollonius of Rhodes

It’s Dangerous to go Alone: Quest Narratives & Oral Tradition

Online:

• The Gender of the Heroes, Storytellers and Collectors of Estonian Fairy Tales, by Risto Järv – Electronical Journal of Folklore 
• Bengt Holbek and the Study of Meanings in Fairy Tales – Francisco Vaz da Silva
• Betwixt and between: The liminal period in rites of passage – Victor Turner

Print:

• In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender, by Barbara Fass Leavy
• The Folktale, by Stith Thompson
• The Complete Folktales of AN Afanas’ ev, by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Afanasʹev, edited by Jack V. Haney

Getting Above It All: Mountaineering and the Search for the Unexplored

Print:

• Hold The Heights: The Foundations of Mountaineering, by Walt Unsworth)
• My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus, by Albert Mummery
• Conquistadors of the Useless: From the Alps to Annapurna , by Lionel Terray

Creating Fact from Fiction: The Search for Prester John

Online:

• Andrew Kurt (2013): The search for Prester John, a projected crusade and the eroding prestige of Ethiopian kings,c.1200–c.1540 – Journal of Medieval History
• Hunting Prester John in the End Times: Columbus and the Apocalyptic Imaginary – Phenderson Djèlí Clark
• Prester John: A Reexamination and Compendium of the Mythical Figure Who Helped Spark European Expansion [DISSERTATION] – Michael Brooks 

Print:

• Prisoners of Prester John The Portuguese Mission to Ethiopia in Search of the Mythical King, 1520–1526, byCates Baldridge
• The Mongols and the West, by Peter Jackson
• Prince Henry the Navigator, by Sir Peter Russell

Boots on Mars

Online:

• Human Settlement on Mars – Mars One
• Space News: SpaceDaily.com, SpaceflightNow.com, NewSpaceWatch.com, Space.com, Sen.com
• Space Agencies: NASA, ESA, Роскосмос (Roscosmos), JAXA, CNSA, Complete list of Space Agencies on Wikipedia
• Mars Programs: Mars Exploration Program – NASA, Mars Science Laboratory – NASA, ExoMars – ESA
• Space Advocacy: The Planetary Society, Explore Mars
• Organisations: SETI Institute, Cosmos Education, Woman In Aerospace, Mars Society, Mars Foundation, The Mars Initiative

Print:

• How to live on Mars, A trusty Guidbook to Surviving and Thriving on the Red Planet, by Robert Zubrin
• The Case for Mars, A Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must, by Robert Zubrin
• Packing for Mars, The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Mary Roach
• Welcome to Mars, Making a Home on the Red Planet, Buzz Aldrin
• Mars, by Chris Oxlade
• Mission to Mars My Vision for Space Exploration, By Buzz Aldrin

Is There Anybody Out There? Obsessing Over ET

• “To explore, understand, and explain the origin and nature of life in the universe, and to apply the knowledge gained to inspire and guide present and future generations.“ – SETI Institute
• NASA Exoplanet Archive
• Drake Equation: How Many Alien Civilizations Exist? – BBC Future
• The Great Moon Hoax – The History Channel

Print:

• Ten Billion Tomorrows, by Brian Clegg
• Alone in the Universe, by John Gribbin
• Contact, by Carl Sagan

History’s Helpful Hindrance: The Hutchings Quest for Yosemite

Print:

• In the Heart of the Sierras, by James Mason Mutchings (online here)
• The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America’s Most Popular National Park, by Jen A. Huntley

Online:

• James and Elvira Hutchings – National Park Service
• Collection of Works by or About James Hutchings – Internet Archive

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 Andrey Tselikov, Chris Carrico, Jade Hoffman, Matthew Nelson, Daen de Leon, and Amy Mains. Thank you!