April 2013

Booklists · Travel and the Great Outdoors

Whether you’re roughing it in the woods, hitting the open road, or just relaxing on a cruise, the Library has plenty of travel books to help plan your adventure! Before you pack your bags, check out one of these staff picks!

Books for Kids: Easy Books

When We Go Walking

Cari Best

Charley Harper’s What’s in the Woods?

Zoe Burke

Dodsworth in Tokyo

Tim Egan

House Held Up by Trees

Ted Kooser

Amelia Bedelia Hits the Trail

Herman Parish

Slither Slide, What’s Outside?

Simon Shapiro

Books for Kids: Juvenile Fiction and Nonfiction

Road Trip

Jim and Gary Paulsen

Sailing the Unknown: Around the World with Captain Cook

Michael J. Rosen

Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature

Nicola Davies

Riding in My Car

Woody Guthrie

Backyard Biology: Investigate Habitats Outside Your Door with 25 Projects

Donna Latham

National Geographic Kids Ultimate U.S. Road Trip Atlas: Maps, Games, Activities

The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir and Our National Parks

Barb Rosenstock

Far From Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage

Sophie Webb

Adult Fiction Set in Exotic Locales

The Garden of Evening Mists

Tan Twan Eng

Peaches for Father Francis

Joanne Harris

The Expats

Chris Pavone

The Clover House

Henriette Lazaridis Power

The Twelve Rooms of the Nile

Enid Shomer

The Paradise Guest House

Ellen Sussman

Beautiful Ruins

Jess Walter

Adult Mysteries Set in the Great Outdoors

Rock Bottom: A Mystery Featuring Forensic Geologist Em Hansen

Sarah Andrews

The Rope: An Anna Pigeon Novel

Nevada Barr

Breaking Point: A Joe Pickett Novel

C.J. Box

Bad Little Falls

Paul Doiron

Red Jacket: A Lute Bapcat Mystery

Joseph Heywood

Trickster’s Point

William Kent Krueger

Bad Blood: A Kate Shugak Novel

Dana Stabenow

Adult Nonfiction: Travel Guidebooks

1,000 Places to See Before You Die

Patricia Shultz

Discover USA’s Best National Parks

Hiking Kentucky’s Red River Gorge: Your Definitive Guide to the Jewel of the Southeast

Sean Patrick Hill

How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter

Matt Kepnes

The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids: How to Plan Memorable Family Adventures and Connect Kids to Nature

Helen Olsson

Adult Nonfiction: Travel Writing and the Great Outdoors

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Bill Bryson

Here is Where: Discovering America’s Great Forgotten History

Andrew Carroll

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America

Timothy Egan

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

David Grann

The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle

Sara Wheeler

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883

Simon Winchester

Adult Nonfiction: Classics

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson

A Sand County Almanac

Aldo Leopold

Young Men and Fire

Norman Maclean

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

John Steinbeck

Walden, and Other Writings

Henry David Thoreau

Need more suggestions? Contact your local branch or the Information & Reference Department (513-369-6900) and a librarian will be happy to assist you.