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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  • Wander New York by Reese Traves
    Wander New York: Fitz in the City (A Wander Often Wonder Always Book #1)
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  • Nala's World by Dean Nicholson
    Nala's World: One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride around the Globe

    Release date: Sep 29, 2020
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    Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel
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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
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    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
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    Around the World through Fiction
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    A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonThe Great Railway Bazaar by Paul TherouxTravels with Charley by John SteinbeckIn Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
    Have Passport Will Travel
    544 books — 639 voters
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    464 books — 245 voters

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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “ I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

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

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