A bestselling travel writer recounts an epic high-altitude family adventure. Feeling stagnant, gawking mindlessly at his phone, increasingly disconnected from family and everything of importance in his world, it struck writer Bruce...
Travel writing
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Author:Kirkby, BruceSummary: - Author:Henderson, BobSummary:
Hit the trails with naturalist and raconteur Bob Henderson in this four-book bundle! From folklore to heritage, with a hefty dose of the Scandinavian outdoor-living ethos of friluftsliv, Henderson fires the imagination, urging Ontarians...
- Author:Carri'n', JorgeSummary:
Jorge Carri'n collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop and Green Apple Books in San Francisco and all the bright spots in between (Prairie Lights, Tattered Cover, and...
- Author:Winter, KathleenSummary:
A chronicle of author Kathleen Winter's journey through the Northwest Passage, including vivid descriptions of the land and its people.
- Author:Wilkins, CharlesSummary:
Breakfast at the Hoito brings together a collection of stories and essays on the dreamlike world of Lake Superior’s north shore … on wilds and wildlife, people and places.Spend a day in the kitchen of the famed Hoito Restaurant in...
- Author:Kawatski, Deanna BarnhardtSummary:
“Burning Man, Slaying Dragon is an exciting, high stakes, spiritual adventure that spans decades, continents, cultures and generations. As a young, headstrong hippie, Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski leaves her home at her beloved Shuswap Lake...
- Author:WORTHY, FrankSummary:
The travels of a couple on a sixty day bus tour around Australia.
- Author:Brown, PatrickSummary:
Fascinating, revelatory, and powerful, Butterfly MindM is a memorable work from a renowned reporter on the front line of history. In this memoir, award-winning journalist Patrick Brown weaves together three stories: the first is Brown's...
- Author:Das, BrittaSummary:
Often seen as a magical paradise at the end of the world, Bhutan is inaccessible to most travellers. Set against the dramatic scenery of the Himalaya, this beguiling memoir recalls hardships and happiness in a land almost untouched by...
- Author:Levine, NormanSummary:
This travelogue-turned-expose of the 'polite nation' at midcentury proved so shocking it took twenty-one years - despite initial acclaim when released in 1958 - to see a Canadian edition. A record of his three-month journey across the...
- Author:Richardson, MarkSummary:
The Trans-Canada, the world’s longest national highway, comes to life in words and pictures. Russia has the Trans-Siberian Highway, Australia has Highway 1, and Canada has the Trans-Canada Highway, an iconic road that stretches almost 8...
- Author:Colombo, John RobertSummary:
Here is a list of three dozen of the top literary locales in the country. The selection of sites is necessarily subjective, yet it attempts to represent geographical, historical, social and cultural concerns as well as strictly literary...
- Author:MacGregor, RoySummary:
From the earliest explorers on the Columbia River in BC or the Mattawa in Ontario to a doomed expedition of voyageurs up the Nile to rescue Khartoum; from the author's family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who...
- Author:Finkelstein, MaxSummary:
A highly personal account of the travels of Max Finkelstein as he retraces, some two hundred years later, the route of Alexander Mackenzie, the first European to cross North America (1793). Mackenzie's water trail is now...
- Author:Cheadle, WalterSummary:
Walter B. Cheadle’s diary tells his incredible story of travelling with Lord Milton, as they journeyed along the uncharted Yellowhead route in 1862–63. A miraculously successful expedition, the men traversed the continent, making their...
- Author:Quinn, KatieSummary:
Katie Quinn spent months as an apprentice with some of Europe's most acclaimed experts to study the art and science of fermentation. Part artisanal survey, part travelogue, and part cookbook, this book provides a fascinating look...
- Author:Lamb, JamieSummary:
Many Canadians grew up in small towns, or at least in neighbourhoods that acted like small towns. But what if you grew up in Canada's most famous small town--Stephen Leacock's Mariposa? This was the world that journalist Jamie Lamb was...
- Author:Navai, RamitaSummary:
Ramita Navai gives voice to ordinary Iranians forced to live extraordinary lives: the porn star, the aging socialite, the assassin and enemy of the state who ends up working for the Republic, the dutiful housewife who files for divorce...
- Author:Hastings, EliSummary:
Serala drank frat boys under the table. She wore saris and ate delicately from plates of curry at family events; elsewhere she wore a lip ring, designer shades, and a cowboy hat and ordered bloody steaks. She wrote volumes of poetry,...
- Author:McPhee, JohnSummary:
Alaska, the last wilderness, is threatened. McPhee takes us into the back country and past civilized frontiers to the wild beyond.
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