There’s still time left in the summer to take in a few books and an exhibit currently on view at the Perry-Castañeda Library has some suggestions to offer.
“Vacation in a Book” features staff-selected volumes with a broad travel theme for your summer leisure reading pleasure. Staff offer recommendations for everything from a 16th century travelogue to fantasy stories in which the characters travel to another land.
Graduate research assistants in Teaching and Learning Services Ginny Barnes and Natalia Kapacinskas supplemented recommended items with other adventurous materials from the Libraries’ collections (including an oddity about cats in Istanbul available through our Kanopy streaming service).
As with all of our displays, “Vacation in a Book” highlights our deep circulating collections, this time in a fun and summery way to highlight the varied interests of our staff.
On view on the third floor of PCL through August 3.
Here are some of the offerings:
“Wanderlust: A History of Walking” by Rebecca Solnit. 2001. 
“Globalized Nostalgia: Tourism, Heritage, and the Politics of Place” by Christina M Ceisel. 2018. 
“Enjoying Big Bend National Park: A Friendly Guide to Adventures for Everyone” by Gary Clark, Kathy Adams Clark (Photographer). 2009. 
“A Room with a View” by E.M. Forster. 1908. 
“The Swimming Holes of Texas” by Julie Wernersbach, Carolyn Tracy. 2017. 
“One Hundred Mountains of Japan” by Kyuya Fukada. 1964.