An Atlas of Ordinary Wonders: Dispatches from the Edge

POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE

Greetings from California.Dare I say it feels good to be home despite chronic exhaustion and lingering malaise.I landed a week ago, just as a brutal heat wave hit Southern California. I arrived to find Laguna Beach drained of its vibrant summer light. The Pacific Ocean outside my office window dull and muted, as if someone had dragged the saturation all the way down on a generic seaside postcard.Still, my office is always a relief to return to—a…

An Atlas of Ordinary Wonders: Dispatches from the Edge

An Atlas of Ordinary Wonders: Dispatches from the Edge is a generous, visually absorbing collection of twenty photo essays gathered from a decade of travel. Jeremiah A. Gilbert moves from Kashgar’s livestock market and California’s historic town of Locke to Haitian streets, Namibian ruins, South Korean mural villages, and the alleyways of George Town. Arranged chronologically, the book feels like a travel journal refined by hindsight, with each …