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Each year, the return of the summer season brings about ideas of jet-setting travels and leisurely jaunts. In anticipation of the sunny days ahead, we’ve compiled a summer reading list of recently published and forthcoming books which foreground exploration in varied, and sometimes unexpected ways, from at-home gardening to UFOs. Touching on topics such as tourism, nature, and wonder, these titles offer adventure in Canada and beyond.
By Alan MacEachern and Edward MacDonald
Tourism has been a central part of Prince Edward Island’s identity for over a century. Lavishly illustrated with postcards, tourist guides, licence plates, and other memorabilia, The Summer Trade presents a sweeping history of Island tourism against the larger backdrop of cultural, economic, political, and environmental developments. Across the strait, the Island beckons.
By Lianne McTavish
After visiting hundreds of museums across Alberta, Lianne McTavish chronicles some of the most challenging and unexpected sites where the idea of the museum is being reshaped. Honouring local, rural, and Indigenous knowledge, Voluntary Detours enriches critical accounts of the past, present, and future of museums.
By Alfred de Quervain
In the summer of 1912, four young scientists sledded across 640 kilometres of untracked snow and ice, crossing central Greenland from west to east for the first time. This popular account by the expedition’s leader, Alfred de Quervain, is a minor classic of exploration literature and a sympathetic portrayal of life in remote coastal settlements in the early twentieth century.
By Patterson Webster
Autobiography of a Garden details how Patterson Webster, a neophyte gardener, moved from copying the ideas of other people, to learning from them, to striking out on her own. Beautifully photographed and full of inspirational ways of thinking about gardens and gardening, this unique memoir blends history, horticulture, and art.
By Matthew Hayes
Beginning in the 1950s, alleged UFO sightings sparked tension between the Canadian government and its citizens. The public demanded investigation and disclosure while the state appeared unconcerned. In Search for the Unknown Matthew Hayes presents the first comprehensive history of UFO investigations in Canada.
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