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, 375 people requesting

    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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
    Nevada Lowball by Antonio NicassioThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Fictitious Africa
    563 books — 319 voters
    Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonBlood River by Tim ButcherThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
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    2,206 books — 1,969 voters

    Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerAlive by Piers Paul ReadBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
    True Life Adventure
    394 books — 268 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

    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
    369 books — 1,962 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
    2,049 books — 3,982 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

    I read; I travel; I become
    I read; I travel; I become
    Derek Walcott

    But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of in ...more
    Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

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