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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The League of Dangerous Young Ladies (Deluxe Edition)
The Valencia Expat Club
Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America
Shortbread in the Highlands (Suitcase Sisters, #3)
The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris
ALTARS OF THE DELUGE: Pyramids, Megaliths, Cave Art, the Submerged Prehistory of Java, Sumba, Sulawesi, and Sundaland, Temples, Rituals, and a Journey Through the Last Living Megalithic Enigmas
25 Days in Athens
The Gulf of Lions
Oh My Affogato! (Vacationship)
The Lesbian Bar Chronicles: The Living History and Hopeful Future of America's Dyke Dives and Sapphic Spaces
  • Backpack, Jacket, Surfboard by Graham Broyd
    Backpack, Jacket, Surfboard: My Journey Across America, Then and Now
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    Release date: Aug 12, 2026
    In 1980, Graham Broyd did something outrageous—he sold his scholarship ticket to Washington, DC, bought a one-way flight to Los Angeles, and set off t ...more
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    Availability: 100 copies available, 451 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jul 16 - Jul 30, 2026

    Countries available: U.S.

  • The Carroway Island Visitor’s Guide by Robert Gill Jr.
    The Carroway Island Visitor’s Guide: Discovering Virginia’s Best-Kept Chesapeake Secret (The Carroway Island Library, #3)
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    Release date: Jun 12, 2026
    Your ferry is waiting! Discover the legends, traditions, curious characters, and hidden treasures of Carroway Island.
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    Availability: 100 copies available, 470 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jul 17 - Jul 30, 2026

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  • The Genuine Carroway Cookbook and Island Advice Journal by Robert Gill Jr.
    The Genuine Carroway Cookbook and Island Advice Journal (The Carroway Island Library 3)
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    Release date: Jun 01, 2026
    A taste of life on Carroway Island — recipes, traditions, and island wisdom from a place that exists somewhere between history and imagination.
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    Giveaway dates: Jul 18 - Jul 30, 2026

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  • People We Meet on Vacation
    The Road to Tender Hearts
    One Italian Summer
    Our Secret Summer
    A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
    Villa Coco
    A Heartbeat at My Feet
    Road Trip
    Happier Here With You
    Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
    Wish You Were Here
    You Are Here
    West with Giraffes
    The Paris Match
    Vacation Wars
    The Game of VORs by Andrew OrangeOf Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García MárquezOjo por ojo by J.K. FrankoEcho by Thomas Olde HeuveltBlindness by José Saramago
    Global Reading
    421 books — 226 voters

    Gabriel's Fire by Lotchie BurtonSheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  RitzJoey and His Friend Water by Ellen J. LewinbergThe Art of Avoiding Your Werewolf by Lola GlassChasing Headlines by J. Rose Black
    Sizzling Summer Sensations
    3,536 books — 1,126 voters
    Born To Rise by Lorna  BlakeAn Accidental Philanthropist by Winsome Dunn McIntoshPlaying Ball by Vernon DavisThe Last Folk Hero by Jeff PearlmanThrough My Eyes by Tim Tebow
    Best Memoirs/Autobiography/Travel
    1,424 books — 1,479 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
    480 books — 1,150 voters
    The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
    A Journey Through Literary America
    170 books — 237 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
    Into the Wild
    Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
    A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
    I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
    The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
    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

    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

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