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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Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
The Sweetest Connection (Airport Novellas, #3)
The Shell and the Octopus: A Memoir
A Thousand Miles
Mother Ocean Father Nation
The Catch Me if You Can: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World
The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach
Love & Other Great Expectations
Exactly Where You Need to Be
Cabin Fever: The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic
Before Takeoff
Lentehonger
Ogentroost
  • Language Acts and Worldmaking by Catherine Boyle
    Language Acts and Worldmaking: How and Why the Languages We Use Shape Our World and Our Lives

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  • A Place in the World by Frances Mayes
    A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home
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  • Tomorrow in Shanghai by May-lee Chai
    Tomorrow in Shanghai

    Release date: Aug 30, 2022
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    She's Up to No Good
    One Italian Summer
    Wish You Were Here
    The Lincoln Highway
    The Highland Fling
    West with Giraffes
    These Tangled Vines
    Just Haven't Met You Yet
    Shipped
    The Road Trip
    Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3)
    One Night on the Island
    The Unsinkable Greta James
    Great Circle
    The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckWalden by Henry David Thoreau
    A Journey Through Literary America
    145 books — 277 voters
    A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie Wiesel
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    The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakLife of Pi by Yann Martel
    Foreign Lands
    2,388 books — 2,643 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
    738 books — 715 voters

    Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie PerkinsThe Travelers Within by Daniel ModeInstructions for a Broken Heart by Kim CulbertsonA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonI Have Never by Camilla Isley
    Vacation Reads
    344 books — 191 voters
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    Airport Reads
    207 books — 226 voters

    A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
    In a Sunburned Country
    Notes from a Small Island
    Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
    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
    Into the Wild
    Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
    I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
    A Year in Provence
    Under the Tuscan Sun
    On the Road
    The Great Railway Bazaar

    Rumi
    Travel brings power and love back into your life.
    Rumi Jalalud-Din

    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: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

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