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

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Song for a Whale
De dood is een zware klus
Death in Provence
100 Dives of a Lifetime: The World's Ultimate Underwater Destinations
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
Three Little Words (Bridesmaids Behaving Badly #3)
The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life
Who in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas
Tangerine
The Salt Path
Take Me with You
One Indian Girl
P.S. from Paris
Field Notes on Love
The Woman on the Orient Express
My Oxford Year
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
That Month in Tuscany
Love & Gelato
The Simple Wild
I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
Outline
The Monk of Mokha
The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWatership Down by Richard  AdamsRabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
Long Journey on Foot
212 books — 212 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIn a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Favourite Travel Books
1,742 books — 3,983 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Foreign Lands
1,933 books — 2,320 voters

West with the Night by Beryl MarkhamMy Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-NéelOut of Africa by Isak DinesenThe Valleys of the Assassins by Freya StarkBorn Free by Joy Adamson
Trailblazing Women Adventurers
439 books — 162 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverCutting for Stone by Abraham   VerghesePurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fictitious Africa
384 books — 219 voters

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
In a Sunburned Country
Notes from a Small Island
Eat, Pray, Love
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
Into the Wild
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
Under the Tuscan Sun
A Year in Provence
On the Road
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

Peter Hessler
Peter Hessler Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
His Favorite Books on China: Hessler shares his favorite books about China, ranging from the Ming Dynasty to present day.
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J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Not all those who wander are lost. ”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Marcel Proust
“ The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ”
― Marcel Proust

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