Thank you for sharing National Library Week 2020 with us! This year, we shared highlights from Georgia O’Keeffe’s personal library. Please enjoy this 4-part series revisiting those titles.
An avid reader, O’Keeffe owned several thousand books on a wide range of topics including art history and technique, health, world history, travel, dogs, gardening, and cooking. Later in life, when her eyesight became poor, she enjoyed being read to and sought out large print materials and audio books from local libraries.
Helen and Frank Schreider’s Adventure Books
Looking to get away? While you may not be traveling much these days, there’s no better time to escape with some travel literature. O’Keeffe had numerous titles in her library on world travel. Many books were about places she visited such as Peru and Spain, and others represent an interest in worlds and lives far beyond her adobe walls.
O’Keeffe owned all three books by Helen and Frank Schreider, adventurers who were known for traveling by amphibious jeep. Once residents of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the couple made their first journey in the 1950s from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego and authored their first book 20,000 Miles South: A Pan American Adventure. Working for National Geographic, they went on various assignments and expeditions around the world, writing, photographing, and filming. They produced two more books from their adventures: The Drums of Tonkin: An Adventure in Indonesia and Exploring the Amazon.
20,000 Miles South: a Pan American Adventure by
The Drums of Tonkin : an Adventure in Indonesia by
