THE EXPLORER’S LIBRARY (Workman Publishing; November 15, 2022; $85) on your radar. Combining the two New York Times bestselling guides from Atlas Obscura®—Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura— and packaged in a slipcase that evokes the timeless allure of travel, it’s a gorgeous gift that’s perfect for the person who is alive to the world in all its possibilities.
The #1 New York Times bestseller Atlas Obscura is a “wanderlust-whetting cabinet of curiosities on paper” (New York Times). In its pages you’ll find anAmsterdam zoo devoted to creatures (molds, yeast, bacteria, viruses) invisible to the naked eye, the “Door to Hell,” a fire that has been burning in the Turkmenistan desert for over 45 years, and an Alabama museum that displays finds from unclaimed airline baggage, including a 3,500-year-old Egyptian burial mask. Throughout its hundreds of unexpected entries that cover all corners of the 
globe, Atlas Obscuraproves the world is vast and there are marvelous treasures behind every corner—if you just know where to look.
A feast of wonder, the New York Times bestselling Gastro Obscura is the definitive compendium of the astonishing and delicious. Travel to the rainforests of southern Nigeria, where you’ll find a berry that’s more than a thousand times sweeter than table sugar, sip beer made from the fog of the Chilean Atacama Desert, or discover the quirks of Victorian table etiquette and the illustrious history of butter-carving competitions in the United States. Far more than an immersive cabinet of culinary curiosities, Gastro Obscura is a passport to a multitude of flavors, stories, histories, and cultures. It’s a book for anyone who eats, who dreams of eating, or who longs to explore.
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