January Library Display

By this time of the year, I begin to develop cabin fever.  With no cure in sight, a selection of travel books might provide vicarious relief for me and perhaps for fellow sufferers.  A quick subject review of our in-house search engine revealed that the RVM library has at least 225 travel related books, proving that it is a popular genre.

But books cannot be simply labeled as “travel.”  They often are far more than simple accounts of places that people have visited or explored.  The best of them are studies of internal and moral exploration, coming of age tales, as well as physical challenges, which is why so many  have become literary classics.  Below is a sampling of the many books that will be displayed this month.

First, several Manor authors have written travel books, some more than one.  A few of them are:

Among the Maya Ruins, by Ann and Myron Sutton

Only in Iceland: a quirky chronicle, by Asifa Kanji

Two Women in Africa: the ultimate adventure, by J.R. (aka Jean) Dunham

There are a couple of humorous titles:

Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: travel in search of Canada, by Will Ferguson

When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, it’s Time to Go Home, by Erma Bombeck

Bestsellers and classic fiction include:

The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, by Kim Michele Richardson

The Giver of Stars, by JoJo Moyes

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, by Mark Twain

Finally, I can’t resist listing a few of my personal favorites:

Anything travel related by Bill Bryson

Anything travel related by Paul Theroux

Humboldt’s Cosmos:  Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey that changed the way we see the world, by Gerard Helferic

Kingbird Highway:  The biggest year in the life of an extreme birder, by Kenn Kaufman

The River of Doubt:  Theodore Roosevelts’s Darkest Journey, by Candace Millard

The RVM library volunteers wish you happy trails and a year full of good reading.