Lost voyages to the North Pole and more: Catching up with Download the Universe

Over at Download the Universe, we've added another crop of entertaining reviews about ebooks that you definitely should--or, in some cases, definitely should not--check out: "When an Autism Diagnosis Comes as a Blessing": Steve Silberman writes a powerful review about the reality of autism and a Kindle memoir about living with the condition. "Meandering Mississippi: An early journalism iBook is all wet": Seth Mnookin reads an account of last year's Mississippi floods and wonders why newspapers are squandering the opportunities that ebooks are offering them. "A Lost Explorer Returns: Todd Balf's Farthest North: David Dobbs revels in a well-told story of an ill-fated scientific voyage across the Arctic. "Leonardo: The First Great Science Ebook": I take a look at a lavishly-produced ebook about Leonardo da Vinci's forgotten work as a pioneer of anatomy. Staggeringly impressive. "A Time Machine for the Face of Earth": My review of a coffee-table-like ebook about ...