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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  • Echoes in the Stars by Gordon Frisbie
    Echoes in the Stars
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  • Embracing Bewilderment by Cory Mortensen
    Embracing Bewilderment: A Reluctant Entrepreneur’s Journey—An Unconventional European Summer Twisting into a Mind-Bending Excursion through Southeast Asia (The Buddha and the Bee, #3)
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    Release date: Feb 13, 2024
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  • The Flag Revelation by Christopher Maddish
    The Flag Revelation: Proof of Providence Due to the Mysterious & Uncanny Connections of the 50 States of America, Synchronicity Illustrated
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  • People We Meet on Vacation
    Before We Were Innocent
    One Italian Summer
    West with Giraffes
    Wish You Were Here
    The Breakaway
    The Lincoln Highway
    Euro Dreams
    The Resort
    Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3)
    You, with a View
    Mrs. Nash's Ashes
    Enemies to Lovers
    The Hike
    The Highland Fling
    The Hobbit by J.R.R. TolkienA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWild by Cheryl StrayedEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
    Wanderlust
    1,035 books — 1,318 voters
    Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan MatsonPaper Towns by John GreenAn Abundance of Katherines by John Green13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen JohnsonTwo-Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt
    Young Adult Road Trip Novels
    368 books — 2,084 voters

    Setting the Family Free by Eric D. GoodmanComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneLiberté by Gary J. FloydDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesMad Love by Lynessa Layne
    Airport Reads
    198 books — 223 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
    Favorite Travel Books
    1,991 books — 4,580 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
    147 books — 284 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
    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
    On the Road
    The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
    Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

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    Anaïs Nin
    “ We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ”
    ― anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

    Mark Twain
    “ Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ...more ”
    ― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

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