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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Just a Highland Fling
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Beginning Middle End
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Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America
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The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris
ALTARS OF THE DELUGE: Pyramids, Megaliths, Cave Art, the Submerged Prehistory of Java, Sumba, Sulawesi, and Sundaland, Temples, Rituals, and a Journey Through the Last Living Megalithic Enigmas
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  • The Savage Landscape by Cal Flyn
    The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness
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    Giveaway dates: Jul 28 - Aug 11, 2026

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  • Backpack, Jacket, Surfboard by Graham Broyd
    Backpack, Jacket, Surfboard: My Journey Across America, Then and Now
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    Release date: Aug 12, 2025
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  • Down and Out in Utopia by Kelly McKowen
    Down and Out in Utopia: Unemployment as Moral Education in Norway
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  • People We Meet on Vacation
    The Road to Tender Hearts
    A Heartbeat at My Feet
    Meet Me in Paris
    One Italian Summer
    Villa Coco
    A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
    Our Secret Summer
    Road Trip
    West with Giraffes
    Happier Here With You
    You Are Here
    The Mother-Daughter Book Club
    Wish You Were Here
    Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
    Gabriel's Fire by Lotchie BurtonSheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  RitzJoey and His Friend Water by Ellen J. LewinbergThe Art of Avoiding Your Werewolf by Lola GlassChasing Headlines by J. Rose Black
    Sizzling Summer Sensations
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    True Life Adventure
    394 books — 268 voters

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    Ultimate Backpacking Novels
    480 books — 1,151 voters
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    The Starship Book List
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    A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
    In a Sunburned Country
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    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
    Into the Wild
    Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
    A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
    I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
    The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
    On the Road
    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

    David  Mitchell
    Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

    Anna Quindlen
    In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
    Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

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