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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A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
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Love from Mecca to Medina
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When the Angels Left the Old Country
The White Mosque
100 Disney Adventures of a Lifetime: Magical Experiences From Around the World
License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport
On This Airplane
Black History Walks (Twenty in 2020)
  • The French Art of Living Well by Cathy Yandell
    The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World

    Release date: May 23, 2023
    In the tradition of Bringing up Bebe and French Toast, Cathy Yandell's The French Art of Living Well is a delightful look at French culture including ...more
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    Giveaway dates: Dec 17 - Dec 31, 2022

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  • Red Earth Diaries by Jason Rebello
    Red Earth Diaries: A Migrant Couple's Backpacking Adventure in Australia
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    Release date: Jul 08, 2021
    I'm giving away 100 books as a part of my Christmas Giveaway. I'd love to invite you to join us on our epic journey of discovery in Australia. ...more
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    Giveaway dates: Dec 15 - Jan 06, 2023

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  • Travel to Transform by Freeman Fung
    Travel to Transform
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    Release date: Dec 06, 2022
    Are you into traveling and personal growth? We're giving away a hundred ebooks of Travel to Transform by bestselling author Freeman Fung. Enter today! ...more
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    One Italian Summer
    Wish You Were Here
    The Lincoln Highway
    Christmas Baggage  (Christmas Escape)
    The Tourist Attraction (Moose Springs, Alaska #1)
    West with Giraffes
    Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2)
    The Road Trip (The Road Trip, #1)
    A Villa in Sicily: Olive Oil and Murder (A Cats and Dogs Cozy Mystery #1)
    Solito
    Two Nights in Lisbon
    Just Haven't Met You Yet
    These Tangled Vines
    The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
    Around the World in 100 Books
    1,600 books — 936 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
    786 books — 1,149 voters

    The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakLife of Pi by Yann Martel
    Foreign Lands
    2,315 books — 2,652 voters
    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
    146 books — 280 voters

    The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaShantaram by Gregory David RobertsSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
    India
    997 books — 874 voters
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    Favourite Travel Books
    1,986 books — 4,541 voters

    A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
    In a Sunburned Country
    Notes from a Small Island
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    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 Great Railway Bazaar

    Isabelle Eberhardt
    “ Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. ”
    ― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

    I read; I travel; I become
    “ I read; I travel; I become ”
    ― Derek Walcott

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