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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  • The New Tourist by Paige McClanahan
    The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel

    Release date: Jun 18, 2024
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  • Circling Home by Terry A. Repak
    Circling Home: What I Learned by Living Elsewhere

    Release date: Sep 12, 2023
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  • A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko
    A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
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    Release date: May 28, 2024
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  • People We Meet on Vacation
    Before We Were Innocent
    One Italian Summer
    West with Giraffes
    Wish You Were Here
    Girl Abroad
    The Breakaway
    The Lincoln Highway
    You, with a View
    Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3)
    The Resort
    Mrs. Nash's Ashes
    Euro Dreams
    Kilt Trip
    The Highland Fling
    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
    Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
    Fictitious Africa
    511 books — 278 voters

    A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
    Around the World One Book from Each Country
    893 books — 1,008 voters
    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
    2,325 books — 2,691 voters

    Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWild by Cheryl StrayedEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
    Ultimate Backpacking Novels
    468 books — 1,156 voters
    The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
    Around the World in 100 Books
    1,323 books — 944 voters

    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

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