Since publishing its first issue in 1888, just 9 months after the society itself was founded, National Geographic has made a name for itself as a reputable scientific journal with exclusive articles and spectacular photography about nature, culture, history and the far corners of the world....

The Maya were an ancient Mesoamerican civilization known for their advanced developments of written language, mathematics, architecture and astronomy. Chichen Itza is a Mayan city on the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, in between Valladolid and Merida. As it most likely served as the...

Published in 1959 by beat writer William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch is a series of 15 loosely connected vignettes meant to be read in any order. Drawn from Burroughs’ own experiences and his addiction to drugs, Naked Lunch follows the narrative of William Lee, a junkie, as he drifts from place...

Giant tortoises slowly wander the highlands while tiny penguins dive and dart through turquoise waters. Sea birds with bright blue feet waddle along the brilliant white sandy shore as prehistoric iguanas sun themselves on black lava rocks. The Galapagos Islands are a string of islands best...

Originally published in German in 1943, The Glass Bead Game is Hermann Hesse’s last full length novel, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. Set in a Utopian society, centuries ahead into the future, an order of intellectuals play and nurture the Glass Bead Game...

Inside the Amazonian jungle, in south eastern Ecuador, reside an indigenous people called the Shuar. Their practices and beliefs place great value in the connection to plants and animals, a connection ancestral in its nature. To the Shuar, the rainforest is the “lungs of world”...