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The Book Nearly Died With Him in the Amazon. But the Story Endured.
Killed in the rainforest he hoped to help save, the journalist Dom Phillips left behind an unfinished manuscript. Those who ...
Agence France-Presse on MSN6d
Slain UK journalist's book on saving the Amazon published
Three years after UK journalist Dom Phillips was murdered, his widow and colleagues have published the book he was working on ...
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Q&A: Jonathan Watts on Finishing His Murdered Friend’s Book
They were there to speak to fishermen for a book that Phillips was writing about solutions to environmental degradation in the Amazon. Phillips had been living and reporting in Brazil for fourteen ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN7d
The Dead Sea Scrolls Changed Our Understanding of the Bible. Could Some of Them Be Even Older Than We Thought?
In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea—and he heard it strike pottery. Upon entering the ...
Determined not to let his murder silence him, friends of Dom Phillips finish his book on the Amazon
Three years ago this Thursday, British journalist Dom Phillips set out on the long journey home after a research trip deep ...
Futurism on MSN6d
Are Children Losing the Ability to Read?
Parents are not reading out loud to their kids the way they used to — and it's majorly hurting the young ones. As The ...
The Bookseller3d
Books in the Media: David Whitehouse's 'superb, intoxicating' Saltwater Mansions impresses
This week, reviewers praised Dean Van Nguyen's 'ambitious' history of Tupac Shakur and Judith Mackrell's Artists, Siblings, ...
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IrishCentral Book of the Month: "The Boy from the Sea" by Garrett Carr
"The Boy from the Sea" by Garrett Carr is the June 2025 selection for the IrishCentral Book Club. Each month, we will pick a ...