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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  • Ten Years a Nomad by Matthew Kepnes
    Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home
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  • Hungry by Jeff Gordinier
    Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World
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  • Squeaky Wheels by Suzanne Kamata
    Squeaky Wheels: Travels with My Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair
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  • The Salt Path
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    Take Me with You
    That Month in Tuscany
    Field Notes on Love
    One Indian Girl
    Two Steps Forward
    The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
    Love & Gelato
    My Oxford Year
    The Upside of Falling Down
    I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
    P.S. from Paris
    Paris for One and Other Stories
    The Simple Wild
    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
    389 books — 223 voters
    Arabian Sands by Wilfred ThesigerA Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh FermorThe Kon Tiki Expedition by Raft Across the South Seas by Thor HeyerdahlIn Patagonia by Bruce ChatwinSeven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
    Best Travel Writing
    172 books — 267 voters

    The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryShantaram by Gregory David RobertsSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
    India
    709 books — 732 voters
    A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNot Without My Father by Andra Watkins
    Best Memoirs/Autobiography/Travel
    706 books — 789 voters

    Life of Pi by Yann MartelInto the Glorious Unknown by Anna LevaDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca WellsThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaIntimacy on the Plate (Extra Trim Edition) by Olga Petrenko
    Airport Reads
    91 books — 159 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
    441 books — 162 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

    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “ All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost. ”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

    I read; I travel; I become
    “ I read; I travel; I become ”
    ― Derek Walcott

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