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Armchair Travel October 2021
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The art of patience : seeking the snow leopard in Tibet
by Sylvain Tesson
In this celebration of the power and grace of the wild, a restless adventurer embarks on a perilous journey to Tibet in search of one of the most elusive creatures on the planet – the snow leopard – during which he learned to embrace the virtues of patience and silence. Illustrations. Map(s).
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The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance...
by Elizabeth Letts
What it's about: In 1954, broke 63-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins -- who'd received devastating health news and hadn't ridden a horse in decades -- bought a run-down gelding, got her dog, and started riding across the country to fulfill a lifelong dream to see the Pacific Ocean.
Why you might like it: the delightful Annie, the evocative writing, the inspiring story, and the well-researched look at 1950s America.
Read this next: Ben Montgomery's Grandma Gatewood's Walk for another book about an older woman in the 1950s making her own way; Buck Rinker's The Oregon Trail if you like history and westward travel.
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| The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies From a Sinking Ship by Chaney KwakThe opening: "As the cruise ship almost tips over, the horizon that once bisected my lovely balcony door rises like a theater curtain and disappears."
What happened: Along with nearly 1400 others in March 2019, travel writer Chaney Kwak was aboard the Viking Sky cruise ship off the coast of Norway when it was rocked by such severe waves and winds that it listed, lost power, and began to drift into dangerous waters
Why you might like it: Incorporating interviews with others involved, this book is a riveting blend of humor and seriousness that also movingly details the author's examination of his life as he waited to be rescued. |
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| Travels With George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy by Nathaniel PhilbrickDid you know? After George Washington became president, he visited each of the 13 former colonies between 1789 and 1791 to try to unite the brand-new country.
What's inside: a thoughtful examination of the first U.S. president and the country's early years, plus an intimate look at award-winning author Nathanial Philbrick's own 2018 journey (with wife and dog) retracing the route of Washington's long-ago carriage wheels.
Reviewers say: "Both a lighthearted travelogue and a timely exploration of Washington’s historical legacy" (Wall Street Journal). |
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All the Way to the Tigers: A Memoir
by Mary Morris
What's inside: compelling, short chapters that move back and forth between time and place describing the acclaimed author's 1950s Chicago-area childhood, her catastrophic 2008 ankle injury, and a 2011 solo tiger-spotting trip to India during the middle of a cold snap.
Read it for: candid writing, interesting factoids, an evocative look at India, and a thoughtful examination of life and travel.
Did you know? Unseen tigers are always referred to as "she."
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A moveable feast : the restored edition
by Ernest Hemingway
A restored edition of the posthumously published book draws on Hemingway's personal papers, features sketches of Paris with his son and first wife, and includes portraits of such contemporaries as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Maddox Ford.
Widely celebrated and debated by critics and readers everywhere, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.
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| On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey by Paul TherouxWhat happened: Erudite 70-something author Paul Theroux drove the entire length of the U.S.-Mexico border alone. Crossing back and forth, he visited Mexico City, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and other areas, where he met locals, witnessed the monarch butterfly migration, visited historic locations, taught writing, and learned about drug cartels.
Author buzz: Theroux's written acclaimed travelogues and fiction, including books that've been made in movies like The Mosquito Coast. His latest novel, Under the Wave at Waimea, came out in April.
Read this next: For a penetrating look at both U.S. borders, try Stephanie Elizondo Griest's travel narrative All the Agents and Saints. |
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Travels with Charley : in search of America
by John Steinbeck
In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people.
To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante.
His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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