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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Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West
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The Last of Earth
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The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History
  • Stealth Camping with Hundreds of My Closest Friends by Zinnia Abbott
    Stealth Camping with Hundreds of My Closest Friends
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    Release date: Feb 17, 2021
    Recently retired, Zinnia longs to escape boredom and loneliness. So she sets out on a solo road trip looking for adventure, and connection-the human k ...more
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    A National Park Love Story: A Journey to Visit All 63 U.S. National Parks
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    🌲 Thanks for entering! 63 parks, 1 marriage, and a lifetime of trails.
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    Call of the Camino
    You Are Here
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    Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
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    PS: I Hate You
    The Lincoln Highway
    All That Life Can Afford
    The Highland Fling
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    2,377 books — 2,203 voters
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    Best Memoirs/Autobiography/Travel
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    1,079 books — 1,182 voters
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    Life in a Foreign Country
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    Around the World One Book from Each Country
    1,087 books — 980 voters
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    Best Travel Writing
    317 books — 217 voters

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    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Into the Wild
    Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    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

    Mark Twain
    Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ...more
    Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

    J.R.R. Tolkien
    All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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