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VPL - Book Bingo - Travel Books

Get ready for VPL's Adult Summer Challenge Book Bingo with these excellent travel books. For more information on VPL's Adult Summer Challenge, visit https://www.vpl.ca/program/adult-summer-challenge. Get started with these titles carefully selected by the reading specialists at Vancouver Public Library. If you would like a personalized reading list, please use the Books Just For You service at https://www.vpl.ca/readnext.

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  • Walking With Sam

    a Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

    McCarthy, Andrew, 1962-
    Spain, fathers and sons, pilgrimages.
    Book, 2023New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2023.
  • Travellers Through Empire

    Indigenous Voyages From Early Canada

    Morgan, Cecilia, 1958-
    Great Britain, Indigenous travellers, 18th and 19th centuries.
    Book, 2017Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
  • Raw Dog

    the Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

    Loftus, Jamie
    Travelogue, culinary history, American hot dogs.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Tor Publishing Group, 2023.
  • A Complex Coast

    a Kayak Journey From Vancouver Island to Alaska

    Norwell, David
    Pacific Coast kayaking, from British Columbia to Alaska.
    Book, 2023[Victoria, BC] : Heritage House Publishing, [2023]
  • The Border

    a Journey Around Russia : Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway and the Northeast Passage

    Fatland, Erika, 1983-
    Soviet satellite nations, travel writing, and modern history.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Pegasus Books, Ltd., 2022.
  • Personal essays, the American West, landscapes, and the arts.
    Book, 2005New York : Viking, 2005.
  • Mexican-American border, roadside shrines, Zapatistas.
    Book, 2019Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
  • Moby Dyke

    An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

    Burton, Krista
    Lesbian bars, middle America, personal stories.
    Book, 2023New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
  • Two Trees Make a Forest

    in Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts

    Lee, Jessica J., 1986-
    Taiwan, anti-colonial nature writing, memoir.
    Book, 2020Toronto : Hamish Hamilton, ©2020.
  • A Stranger in Your Own City

    Travels in the Middle East's Long War

    Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith
    Baghdad, twenty years of war, human interchange.
    Book, 2023New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2023]
  • How to Clean a Fish

    and Other Adventures in Portugal

    Cabral, Esmeralda
    Portugal, food adventures, language barriers, biography.
    Book, 2023Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Press, 2023.
  • Colombia, amnesia, multiple generations, healers.
    Book, 2022New York : Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022]
  • Train Beyond the Mountains

    Journeys on the Rocky Mountaineer

    Antonson, Rick, 1949-
    British Columbia, Alberta, history of trains.
    Book, 2023Vancouver, [British Columbia] : Greystone Books Ltd., [2023].
  • Yemen, 1937, travel classic.
    Book, 1940New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1940.
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