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
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You Are Here
One Italian Summer
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Murder Takes a Vacation
The Lincoln Highway
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PS: I Hate You
The Sky Beneath Us
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  • 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
    The ultimate guide to the art and science of stick collecting. Because nobody knows sticks like the founders of Stick Nation.

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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
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    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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    Simone de Beauvoir
    I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
    Simone de Beauvoir

    Ursula K. Le Guin
    It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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