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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    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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  • Big Man Small Europe by Tristan Niskanen
    Big Man Small Europe

    Release date: Sep 15, 2020
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  • Sex and Vanity
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    The Tourist Attraction (Moose Springs, Alaska #1)
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    Happiness for Beginners
    The Woman on the Orient Express
    Paris Is Always a Good Idea
    Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop
    My Favorite Souvenir
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    Flying by the Seat of My Knickers (The Travel Mishaps of Caity Shaw #1)
    West with the Night by Beryl MarkhamOut of Africa by Isak DinesenMy Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-NéelBorn Free by Joy AdamsonThe Valleys of the Assassins by Freya Stark
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    465 books — 173 voters
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    Vacation Reads
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    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
    Arabian Sands by Wilfred ThesigerThe Kon Tiki Expedition by Raft Across the South Seas by Thor HeyerdahlA Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh FermorSeven Years in Tibet by Heinrich HarrerIn Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
    Best Travel Writing
    289 books — 290 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
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    1,835 books — 4,250 voters
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    302 books — 359 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
    A Year in Provence
    Under the Tuscan Sun
    On the Road
    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

    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

    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

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