A book blog – or rather, an irregular series about books related to travel, adventure or the outdoors. Perhaps a better name would be Polar Bear Book Club but it’s too late for that. These books are perfect for between your travels and adventures or for cold winter evenings when you’re stuck at home. These are books about the world and about adventurers and explorers. Maybe your next adventure will be to follow in their footsteps?
This is a bit of a rarity. Today’s Travel Library is a work of fiction, and it’s not even children’s fiction (see What Katy Did Next!) No, this is firmly in the realm of adult fiction and set firmly in the modern day. Snug in Iceland by Victoria Walker, as the title suggests, is a… More Travel Library: Snug in Iceland by Victoria Walker
The original plan was to have one Travel Library a week in Blogmas and then I spoiled that by deciding – quite foolishly – to have the entire last week be my trip to Germany (oh, please tell me I can write five new posts in that tiny space of time!). So three Travel Libraries,… More Travel Library: Nightwalking by John Lewis-Stempel
Last Travel Library of Blogmas (I think)! Today I have Wintering, by Katherine May (*affiliate link to bookshop.org). It’s the December book club book in the Adventure Queens Facebook group. I’d not heard of it but “Adventure Queens” + “wild swimming” + “trip to Scandinavia” + the winter theme convinced me that this was the… More Travel Library: Wintering by Katherine May
Welcome to the second edition of Travel Library this Blogmas and today I’m reading Cathedrals of the Flesh by Alexia Brue. No, it’s not strictly a book about cold places but it is a book about hot baths and while none of them are in Iceland… well, there’s your link. Cold place, hot water. This is a book… More Travel Library: Cathedrals of the Flesh
I can’t quite believe I’ve never reviewed this book before when it’s the reason I wrote my own book. Land of the Midnight Sun: My Arctic Adventures (affiliate link to bookshop.org) is a TV tie-in book by Alexander Armstrong to accompany his three-part ITV series which took him from Norway to Sweden, up to Svalbard… More Travel Library: Land of the Midnight Sun by Alexander Armstrong
I didn’t exactly rave over my last Travel Library book, did I? And I’m afraid it’s pretty much more of the same today. This time I’m reading Helen Russell’s The Year of Living Danishly. Helen is a freelance writer and journalist whose husband unexpectedly got offered a job at Lego HQ. They took the plunge… More Travel Library: The Year of Living Danishly
I bought How Iceland Changed the World by Egill Bjarnason months ago and I’ve been dipping in and out ever since without quite being able to bring myself to read it from start to finish. That I eventually achieved by literally scheduling a chapter a day in my calendar and now I’m certain it does… More Travel Library: How Iceland Changed the World by Egill Bjarnason
The third post of the Polar Bear Winter Festival is another winter-themed one – well, an ice-and-snow-themed one, anyway. It’s a Travel Library post and it’s all about A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter, the Austrian wife of a scientist of some kind turned fur trapper who spent a year living with… More Travel Library: A Woman in the Polar Night
This was one of the little pile of books I bought as a reward for having my second jab. Well, if you’re going to go all the way to Salisbury to have a needle stuck in you, you may as well pop into the bookshop. Quite a few books caught my eye and this is… More Travel Library: Icebreaker by Horatio Clare
I was excited about this. I checked my emails multiple times a day in the hopes of hearing something about this and here it is! Anna McNuff‘s new book, Bedtime Adventure Stories For Grown Ups is out mid May and I’ve already read it! Full disclosure, I signed up to Anna’s Trail Team mailing list… More Bedtime Adventure Stories For Grown Ups by Anna McNuff