Travelogue

A travelogue is a written record of a journey. Travelogues have a long history, from Pausanias' account of 2nd-century Greece, to Marco Polo's travels in 13th-century Asia, to the 19th-century ramblings of Mark Twain, through to modern travel literature. ...more

Abroad in Japan: Ten Years in the Land of the Rising Sun
This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History
Free Ride
America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled
Into Iraq
Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train
Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
The Amur River: Between Russia And China
We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year
Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife
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Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey
The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
In a Sunburned Country
Notes from a Small Island
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
Eat, Pray, Love
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
In Patagonia
On the Road
Travels in the Land of Hunger: A backpacker's earthbound journey from the East to the West
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
A Time of Gifts (Trilogy, #1)
Extraordinarily Rich Memories Of My First Time In… by Maurice  Samuel
First Time Travel Memories
1 book — 1 voter

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
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Vagabonds in France by Michael  A. BarryThe Riviera Set by Mary S. LovellFaking It by Leah Marie BrownBonjour Tristesse by Françoise SaganFrench Dive by Eric Freeze
The French Riviera
12 books — 11 voters


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