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

It Happened One Summer (It Happened One Summer, #1)
XOXO
The Tiger Mom's Tale
Three Words for Goodbye
The View Was Exhausting
Build Your House Around My Body
The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
The Man Ban
Clued In Paris: The Concise and Opinionated Guide to the City -2021
Clued In Rome: The Concise and Opinionated Guide to the City -2021
Clued In London: The Concise and Opinionated Guide to the City  -2021
Clued In Venice: The Concise and Opinionated Guide to the City  -2021
The Layover
The Puma Years: A Memoir of Love and Transformation in the Bolivian Jungle
Lizzie & Dante
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    Words from the Window Seat: The Everyday Magic of Kindness, Courage, and Being Your True Self

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    Shrimp ‘n Lobster: A New York City Adventure

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    Walking Home: Trail Stories

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    These Tangled Vines
    The Road Trip
    Shipped
    Great Circle
    Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3)
    There's a Hole in my Bucket: A Journey of Two Brothers
    I Thought You Said This Would Work
    The Castaways
    The Layover
    Miss Benson's Beetle
    The Tourist Attraction (Moose Springs, Alaska #1)
    Float Plan
    Love Your Life
    Migrations
    The Final Empire by Brandon SandersonThe Way of Kings by Brandon SandersonThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
    Magical Lands
    278 books — 157 voters
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    Have Passport Will Travel
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    The Book Thief by Markus ZusakMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniOceans of Trouble by Travis CaseyCutting for Stone by Abraham   Verghese
    Around the World through Fiction
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    Notes from a Small Island
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    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
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    A Year in Provence
    Under the Tuscan Sun
    On the Road
    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “ All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost. ”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “ Not all those who wander are lost. ”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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