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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    Yank Down Under: A Drink and A Look Around Australia
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    The Day Tripper
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    Traveling in Wonder: A Travel Photographer's Tales of Wanderlust
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  • A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
    In a Sunburned Country
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    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
    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
    On the Road
    The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
    Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
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    198 books — 223 voters
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