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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  • Dopeworld by Niko Vorobyov
    Dopeworld: Adventures in the Global Drug Trade

    Release date: Aug 18, 2020
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  • Memorias de una senda inexplorada by Luis Terreros
    Memorias de una senda inexplorada
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    Release date: May 20, 2020
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  • Wander New York by Reese Traves
    Wander New York: Fitz in the City (A Wander Often Wonder Always Book #1)
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  • 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
    A Year in Provence
    Under the Tuscan Sun
    On the Road
    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
    Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan MatsonPaper Towns by John GreenAn Abundance of Katherines by John Green13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen JohnsonTwo-Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt
    Young Adult Road Trip Novels
    336 books — 2,055 voters
    The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Arabian Nights by Anonymous                  ...To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    Around the World in 100 Books
    987 books — 759 voters

    A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankMy Life in France by Julia Child
    Best Memoirs/Autobiography/Travel
    734 books — 834 voters
    The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckWalden by Henry David Thoreau
    A Journey Through Literary America
    141 books — 275 voters

    Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie PerkinsInstructions for a Broken Heart by Kim CulbertsonA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonSomewhere on Maui by Toby NealDaughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
    Vacation Reads
    332 books — 174 voters
    Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerUnder the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
    Best Traveling Vicariously
    1,806 books — 1,538 voters


    Anna Quindlen
    “ In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. ”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

    Jack Kerouac
    “ because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars... ”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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    Livre Love Book Club Group of a few adventurous women in Brighton, Michigan, who happen to be livre (book) lovers.
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    Teignmouth U3A International Book Group A place where we can suggest books we might like to read and discuss them. It would be interesti…more
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    The History Book Club "Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club i…more
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    Libri dal mondo Il gruppo ha l'intento di girare il mondo attraverso la lettura, nel tentativo di scoprire cultu…more
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    Candy's Journey
    10 chapters — updated Nov 26, 2011 09:35AM — 25 people liked it
    Smack! You must be pretty cuz I just hit you
    1 chapters — updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33PM — 1 person liked it

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