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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  • 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
    In 1980, Graham Broyd did something outrageous—he sold his scholarship ticket to Washington, DC, bought a one-way flight to Los Angeles, and set off t ...more
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  • A Taste of Madagascar by Emmanuel  Laroche
    A Taste of Madagascar: Culinary Riches of the Red Island
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    Release date: Feb 17, 2026
    Escape to Madagascar this summer—vanilla, honey, cacao, zebu, and caviar in a journey where flavor, culture, and nature collide.
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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
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    1,097 books — 1,007 voters
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    2,385 books — 2,267 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
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    717 books — 604 voters
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Essays

    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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