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Toby Lester

Toby Lester is a contributing editor of The Atlantic and Boston and the author of Da Vinci's Ghost and The Fourth Part of the World.

Soaring Ambitions

Soaring Ambitions

Early hot-air balloonists ascended to previously unimaginable heights, stirring humanity’s sense of perspective and possibility

by Toby Lester | Thursday, September 05, 2013
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Armchair Travelers

The Renaissance writers and humanists Petrarch and Boccaccio turned to geography to understand the works of antiquity

by Toby Lester | Tuesday, September 01, 2009
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2nd Look

Back to School Required Reading

by Our Editors

It’s officially back-to-school season, a time of year that always makes us just a little bit wistful for the start of a new semester, despite how much we hated first period pre-calc. Fortunately, we can always return to these 14 literary campuses, with no homework required.