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 Lady Rogue
Year of the Monkey
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together
The Art of Making Memories: How to Create and Remember Happy Moments
Surfacing
North Korea Journal
Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
We Are The Ghosts
Start Here
The American Dream? a Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Man, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito: a Graphic Memoir
Epic Continent: Adventures in the Great Stories of Europe
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The Kowloon Kid
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    The Hitchhiker Man
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    Ernest's Way: An International Journey Through Hemingway's Life
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  • The Salt Path
    The Upside of Falling Down
    Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties
    Year of the Monkey
    The Bookshop on the Shore
    Lovestruck (Lucky in Love, #3)
    The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
    Allie and Bea
    Rosie’s Travelling Tea Shop
    The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #2)
    The Woman on the Orient Express
    Paris for One and Other Stories
    Goodbye, Paris
    Turbulence
    Hippie
    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
    1,758 books — 4,070 voters
    Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie PerkinsInstructions for a Broken Heart by Kim CulbertsonSomewhere on Maui by Toby NealA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonDaughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
    Vacation Reads
    322 books — 163 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
    176 books — 273 voters

    A Night to Remember by Walter LordTitanic by Don LynchThe Night Lives On by Walter LordVoyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson WhiteThe Discovery of the Titanic by Robert D. Ballard
    Best Titanic Books
    179 books — 159 voters
    The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
    Life in a Foreign Country
    579 books — 348 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

    Rumi
    “ Travel brings power and love back into your life. ”
    ― Rumi Jalalud-Din

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