Must-Have Gifts for Book Lovers

For the bookworm in your life, make sure that you get your hands on one, or two, of these ideal gifts.

Maple Book Cheese Boards

These cheese boards are functional works of art which are shaped like slender editions with titles on the spine such as: Food for Thought, The Art of Charcuterie, and the Ernest Hemingway memoir A Moveable Feast. All you need to do is add wine and get ready for your book club.

The Book Lover’s Journal

Bibliophiles can use this journal to keep track of the books they’ve read and write down their thoughts and impressions while creating their own volume about a well-read life.

Amber Reading Light

Booklights make for excellent gifts for book lovers. From LoveReading this light comes with an amber hue to alleviate eye strain in the wee hours, plus it also has a bendable neck and a red heart logo on the easy-to-use clip.

Bookends

Books look beautiful when they are displayed, so choose artsy, handcrafted bookends made from geometric shapes or bright colours as perfect accessories for your book lover’s favorite volumes.

Little Women Infinity Scarf

This scarf features quotes from the novel written by Louisa May Alcott with words from the sisters Meg and Jo March. This scarf can not only be worn, but read and adored by book lovers and logophiles alike.

Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany

This illustrated book makes the ideal gift for book lovers, wordsmiths, artists, and anyone who loves life in general. Author Jane Mount features book trivia and facts and fancies, as well as gorgeous illustrations of books, while capturing their nature and character.

Jane Austen Candle

This sweet candle comes with a bookplate-style label featuring Jane Austen’s signature and is scented with English garden favorites like tuberose and gardenia.

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Polar Adventure Books the Experts Read

Some time ago adventurer Alastair Humphreys interviewed fellow adventurers and asked them about their favorite books in their particular field of expertise. When it came to polar adventures, Alastair chose to interview Alex Hibbert, a world-record holding arctic expedition leader and photographer. Here are Alex Hibbert’s five favorite adventure books.

1. Polar Obsession – Paul Nicklen: the Polar Regions are overwhelmingly visual places and so it is right and proper that I include a photo book from one of the best.

2. Polar Attack – Richard Weber and Misha Malakhov: a wonderfully honest and matter-of fact-account of one of the all-time great polar journeys.

3. The Worst Journey in the World – Cherry Apsley-Garrard: to some perhaps a bit heavy, but a gripping account of survival under horrific conditions in the infancy of polar travel.

4. The Horizontal Everest – Jerry Kobalenko: a perfect reminder of two things – that the Poles are a tiny, tiny part of the Polar Regions and also about the value of experience and full ‘immersion’ in the environment.

5. Give Me My Father’s Body – Kenn Harper: a harrowing account of one the most shameful episodes in early polar exploration – a must-read for those who want a deep knowledge and it is written by the ex-husband of an Eskimo lady I spent much time with last winter.

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Adventure Novels That Are Well Worth The Read

When adventure calls we can’t always drop everything and answer, but we can certainly escape into the world of books. With action and adventure at our very fingertips, there are worlds upon worlds to discover from the comfort of our own homes. Here are five adventure novels that are well worth the read.

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles. The lure of the unknown and exotic take center stage in Bowles’ modern story of adventure. A must-read for anyone who questions the way we think of adventure in the first place.

The Call of the Wild by Jack London. Humans aren’t the only species to experience adventure, and Jack London’s tale of a dog named Buck who reverts to the ways of a wolf after a series of misadventures is sure to thrill as well as entertain.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Nothing short of a timeless classic, Mark Twain’s telling of Huck’s adventures is often considered required reading for child and adult alike, adventure-seeker or not.

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard. A strange tale if ever there was one, Allan Quatermain’s adventures through an unexplored region of Africa are sure to delight.

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. The subject of numerous adaptations, and for very good reason, Swift’s stories of adventure serve not just to thrill but to poke fun at human nature and humanity’s conventions.

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