Travel

Travel is the movement of people or objects (such as airplanes, boats, trains and other conveyances) between relatively distant geographical locations. The term "travel" originates from the Old French word travail. Travel writing is a genre that has, as its focus, accounts of real or imaginary places. The genre encompasses a number of styles that may range from the documentary to the evocative, from literary to journalistic, and from the humorous to the serious. Travel writing is often associated with tourism, and includes works of an ephemeral nature such as guide books and reviews, with the ...more

The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
Maybe in Paris
A Hole in the Wind: A Climate Scientist's Bicycle Journey Across the United States
The Wild Woman's Guide to Traveling the World
Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
In a Perfect World
And We're Off
Someone Else's Summer
Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios
Murder in Matera: A True Story of Passion, Family, and Forgiveness in Southern Italy
All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft
Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
This Would Make a Good Story Someday

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    A Long Way Home
    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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    The Little Paris Bookshop
    The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
    The Rules Do Not Apply
    The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
    The One Memory of Flora Banks
    Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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    Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    A Year in Provence
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    On the Road
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “ I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. ”
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “ The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. ”
    ― Augustine of Hippo

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