This is an in-person event with a virtual option hosted by staff at Southwest Chatham Library. Readers meet to discuss nature related books around a chosen theme. November's theme is "Outdoor Adventures". Please read a book of your choosing based on this theme (see suggestion list below). Some of our library staff will be reading along with you. 

REGISTRATION is NOT required unless you would like a reminder email. For more information, please call 912-927-4079 or email berckmans@liveoakpl.org. 

Suggested Reading:

After the Wind: Tragedy on Everest: One Survivor’s Story – Louis W. Kasischke (2015) 317 pp.

Before They’re Gone: A Family’s Year-Long Quest to Explore America’s Most Endangered National Parks – Michael Lanza (2012) 197 pp. Ebook available on available on Libby 

The Big Open: On Foot Across Tibet’s Chang Tang – Rick Ridgeway (2004) 302 pp.

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of The Grand Canyon – Melissa L. Sevigny (2023) 290 pp. Audiobook available on Libby 

Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell’s 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon – Edward Dolnick (2001) 367 pp. Audiobook and Ebook available on Libby and Ebook available on available on Hoopla

Forest Walking: Discovering Trees and Woodlands of North America – Peter Wohlleben (2022) 230 pp. Ebook and Audiobook available on available on Hoopla

The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving our Natural World – Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein (2007) 305 pp. Audiobook and Ebook available on Libby

The Mountains of California – John Muir (2008) 264 pp. Ebook available on available on Hoopla

Salt to Summit: A Vagabond Journey from Death Valley to Mount Whitney – (2012) 266 pp. Ebook available on available on Libby

Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping – Dan White (2016) 401 pp.

The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna—the World’s Most Deadly Peak – Ed Viesturs (2011) 281 pp.

Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season – Bernd Brunner (2019) 262 pp. Ebook available on available on Libby and Ebook available on available on Hoopla

Click link to register.  Zoom login will be emailed prior to the event.