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

New Releases Tagged "Travel"

The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
Girls on the Verge
Forward Me Back To You
Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth
Honey & Leon Take the High Road
  • Cucina Tipica by Andrew Cotto
    Cucina Tipica: An Italian Adventure
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    Release date: Oct 25, 2019
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    Availability: 10 copies available, 455 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jun 06 - Jun 18, 2019

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  • From Madison Avenue to The Olive Grove by V.F. Gutierrez
    From Madison Avenue to The Olive Grove: Reengineering Retirement
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    Release date: Nov 05, 2016
    A couple’s two year journey to convert their retirement hobby farm in San Miguel De Allende into a self sustaining agri-tourism venue focused on olive ...more
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    Availability: 100 copies available, 126 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: May 26 - Jun 25, 2019

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  • Vagabundo by Steven-John Tait
    Vagabundo
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    This novel is NOT for everyone,

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  • Again, but Better
    The Upside of Falling Down
    Take Me with You
    From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
    Field Notes on Love
    One Indian Girl
    The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
    Tangerine
    That Month in Tuscany
    Love & Gelato
    My Oxford Year
    The Simple Wild
    The Temptation of Gracie
    The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
    The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
    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
    247 books — 217 voters
    A Room with a View by E.M. ForsterRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertUnder the Tuscan Sun by Frances MayesThe Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
    Books with Italian location
    289 books — 170 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
    1,749 books — 4,021 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
    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
    173 books — 267 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
    “ 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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    Ibiza Virgin
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