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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  • Acoustic Shadows by Betsy L. Howell
    Acoustic Shadows: Men at War and a Daughter Who Remembers Them
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    Release date: Apr 25, 2007
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    A Rosie Life In Italy 2: What Have We Done?
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    The Layover
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    Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3)
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    The Castaways
    Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
    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
    Favourite Travel Books
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    The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckWalden by Henry David Thoreau
    A Journey Through Literary America
    145 books — 278 voters

    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
    282 books — 160 voters
    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  AdamsThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
    Long Journey on Foot
    278 books — 237 voters

    The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakJOURNEY TO THE WEST by Biao  WangEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
    Life in a Foreign Country
    651 books — 421 voters
    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
    Wanderlust
    996 books — 1,290 voters

    A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
    In a Sunburned Country
    Notes from a Small Island
    Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
    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

    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

    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

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