Books tagged: Travel & Holiday
Along the Shore
By Jane Fairburn
Along the Shore examines the Toronto waterfront, past and present, through the lens of four lakefront communities and districts — the Scarborough shore (including the Bluffs), the Beach, the Island, and the Lakeshore (New Toronto, Mimico, Humber Bay, and Long Branch). Each ... Read more
Bittersweet Sands
By Rick Ranson
In Bittersweet Sands, Rick Ranson recounts a twenty-four-day shift at an oilsands operation undergoing a shutdown, giving us a glimpse at a world most of us only know from the evening news. Along the way, he encounters a group of engaging roughnecks, including a husband-and-wife ... Read more
Black Taxi
By Kendall Hunter
In 1993, Kendall Hunter travelled to Jahannesburg, South Africa, as a volunteer photojournalist for the South African newspaper, New Nation. She immersed herself in the lives of the South African people and witnessed firsthand the country's most monumental changes, including ... Read more
Chinese Brushstrokes
By Sandra Hutchison
In the autumn of 1998, nine months before the Tiananmen Uprising, Sandra Hutchison traveled to Anhui Province, China, to teach English literature. Her students shared with her their dreams, their hopes, and their lives, and she, in turn, embraced their culture as fully as any ... Read more
Hollow Water
By Pete Sarsfield
Hollow Water is a follow-up to Sarsfield's popular Running with the Caribou and is told in the same intimate style that made his first book a popular seller.
Island of the Human Heart
By Laurie Gough
Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award Finalist. Foreword Magazine’s Silver Medal for Best U. S. Travel Book. This first book by Laurie Gough is a diary of her journeys in Fiji, New Zealand, Malaysia, Bali, Italy, Morocco and North America.
Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak
By Victoria Jason
During the summers of 1991 through 1994 Victoria Jason and two companions--Fred Reffler and Don Starkell--set out to kayak from Churchill, Manitoba to Tuktoyaktuk on the Beaufort Sea. When she set out in 1991, Victoria, already a grandmother of two, had been kayaking for only ... Read more
Lost in Moscow
By Kirsten Koza
When most parents consider sending their child to summer camp, they imagine a sunny lake a few hours out of the city. In 1977, the parents of 11-year-old Kirsten Koza sent their pigtailed, sass-talking offspring on a summer trip to the Soviet Union—with only fifty dollars ... Read more
