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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Paris Is Always a Good Idea
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
My Summer of Love and Misfortune
Max and Marla Are Going on a Trip
Sex and Vanity
The Jetsetters
Side Trip
Next Year in Havana
Sea Wife
The Tourist Attraction (Moose Springs, Alaska #1)
Allie and Bea
The Woman on the Orient Express
My Favorite Souvenir
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
Someday in Paris
Paris Is Always a Good Idea
Quarter Miles (Runaway, #3)
Leaving Blythe River
Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus
  • Wander New York by Reese Traves
    Wander New York: Fitz in the City (A Wander Often Wonder Always Book #1)
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    Release date: Aug 10, 2020
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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 by Suzanne   Roberts
    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
    On the Road
    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
    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
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    Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie PerkinsThe Travelers Within by Daniel ModeInstructions for a Broken Heart by Kim CulbertsonA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonDaughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
    Vacation Reads
    333 books — 184 voters

    The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingThe Past by Kenneth   ThomasA Knight in Shining Armor by Jude DeverauxOutlander by Diana Gabaldon
    Time Travel Romance
    230 books — 191 voters
    The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsAnna and the French Kiss by Stephanie PerkinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsLock and Key by Sarah Dessen
    Best teen-fiction books
    302 books — 359 voters

    Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerAlive by Piers Paul ReadBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenThe Long Walk by Sławomir Rawicz
    True Life Adventure
    339 books — 275 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
    304 books — 182 voters


    Pascal Mercier
    “ We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. ”
    ― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

    Mark Twain
    “ Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ”
    ― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

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