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

That Time I Joined the Circus
The Best of Us
Summers in Supino: Becoming Italian
A Long Way Away
Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James
Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo
The Turk Who Loved Apples: And Other Tales of Losing My Way Around the World
Paris to Provence: Childhood Memories of Food & France
Lessons in French
Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm
Swimming at Night
The Paradise Guest House
Friendship Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Still Points North: Surviving the World's Greatest Alaskan Childhood
Hidden Cities: My Journey into the Secret World of Urban Exploration

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    Hoofing It
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    The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
    Just One Day (Just One Day, #1)
    Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
    Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
    Meant to Be
    Amy and Roger's Epic Detour
    The Newlyweds
    Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
    The Cat's Table
    Going Bovine
    The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
    Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
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    50 books — 44 voters
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    115 books — 64 voters

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    101 books — 98 voters
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    Atomic Summer by Elaine D. WalshWe Wove a Web in Childhood by Ruth  ThomasCemetery Street by John ZunskiLife of Pi by Yann MartelNightwatching by John Zunski
    Books Read in 2012
    63 books — 31 voters
    Moloka'i by Alan BrennertUnfamiliar Fishes by Sarah VowellHotel Honolulu by Paul TherouxAncient Hawai'i by Herb Kawainui KaneLetters from Hawaii by Mark Twain
    All Things Hawaiian
    71 books — 33 voters

    A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
    Notes from a Small Island
    Eat, Pray, Love
    Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
    I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
    Under the Tuscan Sun
    A Year in Provence
    Into the Wild
    1,000 Places to See Before You Die
    Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
    On the Road
    The Great Railway Bazaar
    The Art of Travel

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    Sue Monk Kidd Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
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    Mark Twain
    I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
    Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

    Lao Tzu
    A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
    Lao Tzu

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