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 Dark and Deadly Journey  (Evelyne Redfern, #3)
Everything About You
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Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
The Road to Tender Hearts
The View From Lake Como
You Are Here
One Italian Summer
All That Life Can Afford
Run for the Hills
Wish You Were Here
Murder Takes a Vacation
The Lincoln Highway
West With Giraffes
PS: I Hate You
The Sky Beneath Us
Vacation Wars
  • Sticks by Logan Jugler
    Sticks: A Collection of Sticks & the People Who Love Them, from the Founders of Stick Nation

    Release date: Oct 07, 2025
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  • 100 Train Journeys of a Lifetime by Everett Potter
    100 Train Journeys of a Lifetime: The World's Ultimate Rides (100 of a Lifetime)

    Release date: Oct 07, 2025
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  • Still Wish You Were Here by Loren Rhoads
    Still Wish You Were Here: More Adventures in Cemetery Travel
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  • 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
    Into the Wild
    Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    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
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    Fictitious Africa
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    The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankJourney to the West by Biao  WangEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
    Life in a Foreign Country
    792 books — 389 voters

    National Geographic by Leah Bendavid-ValThe Art Book by Phaidon PressAlways a Traveler, Never a Tourist by Judy BloombergAnsel Adams by Ansel AdamsPortraits by Steve McCurry
    Best Coffee Table Books
    590 books — 286 voters
    Illegal by John  DennehyA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonOne Day at a Time 2017 by Hollie Bell-SchinzingPromise of Departure by L.W. MontgomeryWild by Cheryl Strayed
    Best Adventure Travel Memoir
    273 books — 174 voters

    The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoOne Hot Italian Summer by Karina HalleThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
    Reading Italy
    443 books — 235 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
    1,012 books — 864 voters


    Anna Quindlen
    In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
    Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

    Pascal Mercier
    We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.
    Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

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