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

The Travelers
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
The Forbidden Orchid
Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir
Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia
Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour
Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve
The Wander Society
Gardens of Awe and Folly: A Traveler's Journal on the Meaning of Life and Gardening
As in tas
Walking The Himalayas
Are We There Yet?
The Vanishing of Flight MH370: The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: New Zealand
Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World

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  • The Winner's Kiss (The Winner's Trilogy, #3)
    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
    Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
    The Little Paris Bookshop
    The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
    Take Me with You
    Passenger (Passenger, #1)
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    The High Mountains of Portugal
    A Thousand Pieces of You (Firebird, #1)
    The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
    The Expatriates
    The Travelers
    In Other Words
    The Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Arabian Nights by Richard Francis BurtonDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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    A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
    Eat, Pray, Love
    Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
    I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
    Under the Tuscan Sun
    Into the Wild
    Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    A Year in Provence
    On the Road
    1,000 Places to See Before You Die
    Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
    Notes from a Small Island
    The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World


    Sue Monk Kidd
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    Isabelle Eberhardt
    Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.
    Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

    Anna Quindlen
    Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
    Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

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