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

Float Plan
Red Island House
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
Meet Me in Paradise
The Vietri Project
American Betiya
Across the Pond
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
A Rogue to Remember (League of Scoundrels, #1)
Breathing Underwater
Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail
Artistic Places
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
My Year Abroad
It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake
  • Thailand for Couples by David  Nguyen
    Thailand for Couples: Travel Guide
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  • Book Towns by Alex       Johnson
    Book Towns: Forty-Five Paradises of the Printed Word
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    Release date: Mar 22, 2018
    From Hay-on-Wye in Wales to Ureña in Spain, Fjaerland in Norway to Jimbochu in Japan, around 40 semi-official book towns now exist around the world. B ...more
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    Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
    The Bounty (Fox and O'Hare #7)
    Shipped
    Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3)
    Allie and Bea
    Float Plan
    How the Penguins Saved Veronica
    Love Your Life
    Miss Benson's Beetle
    Much Ado About You
    The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany
    Sex and Vanity
    Next Year in Havana
    A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
    Complicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa LayneSetting the Family Free by Eric D. GoodmanLiberté by Gary J. FloydMad Love by Lynessa Layne
    Airport Reads
    189 books — 231 voters
    Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWild by Cheryl StrayedEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
    Ultimate Backpacking Novels
    437 books — 1,118 voters

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigThe Diary of Bink Cummings by Bink CummingsMotorcycle Man by Kristen AshleyReaper's Property by Joanna WyldeJupiter's Travels by Ted Simon
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    The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienWild by Cheryl StrayedA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
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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
    595 books — 665 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
    Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
    I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
    A Year in Provence
    Under the Tuscan Sun
    On the Road
    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

    Anna Quindlen
    “ Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. ”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

    Gustave Flaubert
    “ Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. ”
    ― Gustave Flaubert

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