As the world returns to travel, Steve Burgess asks: Is satisfying our own wanderlust worth the trouble it causes everyone else? Or is the tourist guilty of the charges—from voyeurism to desecration—levelled against them by everyone from environmentalists to exhausted locals to superior-feeling fellow tourists who have traded in the tour bus for “authentic experiences”?
For the fourth North Shore Reads event, we invite you to a timely and dynamic conversation between Burgess and The Globe and Mail’s Marsha Lederman on the real price of our holidays, covered in Burgess’s new book Reservations: The Pleasures & Perils of Travel.
This event is a collaboration between the North Vancouver City Library, North Vancouver District Public Library, and West Vancouver Memorial Library. Previous North Shore Reads authors include Suzanne Simard, Ivan Coyote, and Brett Popplewell.
Register for this VIRTUAL event at northshorereads2025.eventbrite.ca. You’ll receive a Zoom link shortly before the event.
About the presenters:
Steve Burgess is a Vancouver writer and broadcaster. He is the author of Reservations: The Pleasures and Perils of Travel (Douglas & McIntyre) and Who Killed Mom? (Greystone Books). He is a two-time Canadian National Magazine Award winner and winner of the 2022 Jack Webster Community Mic Award as Commentator of the Year for his work with The Tyee.ca. He is the former host of @the end on CBC Television and has been an occasional CBC Radio guest host.
Marsha Lederman is an award-winning journalist and author. A staff columnist with The Globe and Mail, she was previously The Globe’s Western Arts Correspondent. Her memoir Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2022. Born and raised in Toronto, Marsha now lives in Vancouver.