I love this approach. I read, but mostly listen to Honestly, Triggernometry, Meghan Murphy's podcasts, Sam Harris, The Outsider Magazine podcast, and Patented (my daughter's favorite. We read all the Little House Books (which are remarkably good at helping us distill the essence of life by eliminating the fluff unique to our current era). For the purpose of teaching our kids about how revolutions unfold as sudden disturbances within the social and tangible fixtures of our immediate lives, I recommend The Red Umbrella, by Cristina Gonzalez. The story is about the author's mother's experience as a political exile during the early 1960s. She and her younger brother were sent to Nebraska, just like my mother and her younger brother were, via the Peter Pan Project. 90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbes is an award winning book, which may be something of a memoir about the author, whose experience involves lots of adventure.

I want to read about the North Korean political exile fir sure. That sounds adventurous and politically timely.