By Sarah Leen
National Geographic
If you’re doing your duty and staying home—but getting tired of binge-watching, baking, and seeing your friends on a screen—there’s a clever way to do some armchair traveling, meet cool animals, and discover stories that might touch your heart.
I’m talking about what my mother called “picture books.”
Every photographer I know wants their images published in a book. It gives their work the validation and permanence they just can’t get from a screen. You can’t fall in love with a website the way you can with a book. Here are some of my favorite books that you can order from an online bookseller.
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Read MoreBy Edward Burtynsky
National Geographic Magazine
Few people see where the resources that make their life possible come from. Most of us see skyscrapers but don’t see the silica mines that created the glass… We see farmland but not the forests that used to grow there—or the potash mines that provide the fertilizer that nourishes the crops.
Read MoreBy Daniel Stone
National Geographic
Since sometime between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago, an era generally known as the Bronze Age, humans have been remarkably adept at identifying precious resources and ripping them from the Earth.
For a while, working with bronze or gold or copper meant working with your hands, and with only as much of it as one person could handle. But the 20th century, followed by the 21st, brought marvelous new ways to exploit Earth's elements, namely with industrial beasts that could tear apart landscapes with terrific volume and speed.
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