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
  • Responsible RVing by Dave Letterfly Knoderer
    Responsible RVing: How The Ultimate RV Changed My Life (Successful Adventuring Guides)

    Release date: Aug 22, 2024
    Please enjoy this formula for discovering success while adventuring
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    Availability: 100 copies available, 630 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jun 29 - Jul 28, 2026

    Countries available: U.S.

  • 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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    Giveaway dates: Jul 16 - Jul 30, 2026

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  • 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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    Giveaway dates: Jul 17 - 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
    Nomads Colony in Paradise Island by ZaiN BabaArabian Sands by Wilfred ThesigerA Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh FermorWinging It  by Lia RussA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
    Best Travel Writing
    326 books — 252 voters
    A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonThe Great Railway Bazaar by Paul TherouxTravels with Charley by John SteinbeckThe Trigger by Tim Butcher
    Have Passport Will Travel
    713 books — 607 voters

    Whatever Comes My Way by Roger GaessBelgium on a Bounce by Roger GaessEchoes In The Walls by Katrina MorganNomads Colony in Paradise Island by ZaiN BabaA Narrowboat at Large by Jo May
    Best Adventure Travel Memoir
    302 books — 311 voters

    The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertJourney to the West by Biao  Wang
    Life in a Foreign Country
    830 books — 446 voters
    ROADMAP FOR A BRILLIANT LIFE by Elaine Yarbrough & Bob BensonRoadmap for a Brilliant Life by Elaine Yarbrough & Bob BensonNational Geographic by Leah Bendavid-ValThe Art Book by Phaidon PressAlways a Traveler, Never a Tourist by Judy Bloomberg
    Best Coffee Table Books
    600 books — 424 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

    Judith Thurman
    Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. ...more
    Judith Thurman

    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

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