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

My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
In a Perfect World
And We're Off
Someone Else's Summer
Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios
Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft
The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
This Would Make a Good Story Someday
The Excursionist
Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays
Carson Crosses Canada
At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe
Sunshine State
My Italian Bulldozer

Giveaways

  • Shark Drunk by Morten A. Strøksnes
    Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean
    by
    Release date: Jun 27, 2017
    GIVEAWAY! Shark Drunk is a salty story of friendship, adventure, and the explosive life that teems beneath the ocean. If you love Bill Bill Bryson, en ...more
    View Details »

    Format: Print Book

    Giveaway ends in: a

    Availability: 5 copies available, 144 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jun 02 - Jun 30, 2017

    Countries available: US

  • 23 Degrees South by Neal Rabin
    23 Degrees South: A Tropical Tale of Changing Whether...
    by
    Release date: Apr 01, 2016
    One lucky winner will receive a finished copy of 23 DEGREES SOUTH: A Tropical Tale of Changing Whether by Neal Rabin. Join Hart and Simon on an advent ...more
    View Details »

    Format: Print Book

    Giveaway ends in: a

    Availability: 1 copy available, 397 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: May 25 - Jun 05, 2017

    Countries available: US

    read on goodreads
  • Murder in Matera by Helene Stapinski
    Murder in Matera: A True Story of Passion, Family, and Forgiveness in Southern Italy
    by
    Release date: May 23, 2017
    Enter for your chance to win a copy of Murder in Matera.

    “A thrilling detective story… Stapinski pursues the study of her family’s criminal genealogy
    ...more
    View Details »

    Format: Print Book

    Giveaway ends in: a

    Availability: 20 copies available, 895 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: May 22 - Jun 05, 2017

    Countries available: US

  • A Long Way Home
    The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
    The Rules Do Not Apply
    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
    The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
    The Little Paris Bookshop
    Love & Gelato
    The Tour
    The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
    Paris for One and Other Stories
    Take Me with You
    The Vacationers
    My Italian Bulldozer
    Beautiful Ruins
    Imagine Wanting Only This
    Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Liquidator by Iain ParkeAfrican Safari with Ted and Raymond by Rhonda PattonThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
    Fictitious Africa
    330 books — 185 voters
    The Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Arabian Nights by AnonymousDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    Around the World in 100 Books
    857 books — 493 voters

    Blood River by Tim ButcherChasing the Devil by Tim ButcherA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonTravels with Charley by John Steinbeck
    Have Passport Will Travel
    505 books — 575 voters
    Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan MatsonPaper Towns by John GreenAn Abundance of Katherines by John Green13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen JohnsonTwo-Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt
    Young Adult Road Trip Novels
    287 books — 1,915 voters

    West with the Night by Beryl MarkhamMy Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-NéelThe Valleys of the Assassins by Freya StarkStraight on Till Morning by Mary S. LovellOut of Africa by Isak Dinesen
    Trailblazing Women Adventurers
    265 books — 131 voters
    My First Travel Angelic Airline Adventures by Anna OthitisInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerAlive by Piers Paul ReadThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
    True Life Adventure
    182 books — 152 voters

    A Walk in the Woods
    In a Sunburned Country
    Notes from a Small Island
    Eat, Pray, Love
    Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
    Into the Wild
    Under the Tuscan Sun
    Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    A Year in Provence
    On the Road
    Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
    The Great Railway Bazaar
    The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

    Eric Weiner
    Eric    Weiner Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine
    His Favorite Gifts for Travelers: The globetrotter behind the multicontinent spiritual quest Man Seeks God selects the ideal books to give to those with wanderlust.
    More Good Minds Suggest…
    Lao Tzu
    The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
    Lao Tzu

    John Green
    Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this." "Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish." "God, you're the best," I told him. "I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered.
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

    More quotes...
    A friendly group for people who like to read and chat about books. We will have a book of the mo…more

    1 member, last active 6 days ago

    Non Fiction Book Club This group is for anyone who enjoys Non Fiction. Genres discussed here are Histories, Autobiogra…more

    540 members, last active 2 hours ago

    The EmptyNester's Nest A group for progressive Empty Nesters who likes to stay positively charged, engaged and motivate…more

    1 member, last active 3 months ago

    Around the World in 80 Books Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world lit…more

    12,449 members, last active an hour ago

    Annie returns home
    1 chapters — updated Sep 21, 2010 08:17AM — 0 people liked it
    ai :/lʌv/
    1 chapters — updated May 13, 2015 06:31PM — 0 people liked it

    Tags

    Tags contributing to this page include: travel and travel-writing