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

New Releases Tagged "Travel"

Any Duke in a Storm (Daring Dukes #4)
Following Caesar: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways That Planted the Seeds of Empire
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People We Meet on Vacation
Before We Were Innocent
One Italian Summer
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The Breakaway
The Lincoln Highway
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  • Cruising the Mediterranean during COVID by Steve Kaffen
    Cruising the Mediterranean during COVID
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    Release date: Sep 05, 2022
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    Giveaway dates: Feb 05 - Feb 20, 2024

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  • Yank Down Under by Tim Sweeney
    Yank Down Under: A Drink and A Look Around Australia
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    Release date: Jul 01, 2023
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  • The Day Tripper by James Goodhand
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  • A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
    In a Sunburned Country
    Notes from a Small Island
    Eat, Pray, Love
    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
    Arabian Sands by Wilfred ThesigerA Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh FermorThe Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor HeyerdahlA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonIn Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
    Best Travel Writing
    321 books — 316 voters
    Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerAlive by Piers Paul ReadBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenLong Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
    True Life Adventure
    381 books — 313 voters

    One Hot Italian Summer by Karina HalleThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
    Reading Italy
    440 books — 231 voters
    Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan MatsonPaper Towns by John GreenAn Abundance of Katherines by John Green13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen JohnsonTwo-Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt
    Young Adult Road Trip Novels
    368 books — 2,200 voters

    The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsAnna and the French Kiss by Stephanie PerkinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsLock and Key by Sarah Dessen
    Best teen-fiction books
    312 books — 370 voters
    Illegal by John  DennehyOne Day at a Time 2017 by Hollie Bell-SchinzingA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonPromise of Departure by L.W. MontgomeryRoad Stories by Ed  Davis
    Best Adventure Travel Memoir
    266 books — 216 voters


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