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

Love & Luck
9 Days and 9 Nights
A Lite Too Bright
Airports, Exes, and Other Things I'm Over
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
Unfaded (Faded Duet, #2)
Kings of the Yukon: One Summer Paddling Across the Far North
Isle of Blood and Stone (Tower of Winds, #1)
God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State
Now a Major Motion Picture
The Art of the Wasted Day
The Summer of Broken Things
End of the Rope: Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood
Peter & Ernesto: A Tale of Two Sloths
Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine

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    Mylo the Panda Travels to Washington, D.C.
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    Overland: Remembering Southeast Asia
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    Apple Insider: An Englishman in New York
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  • The Bette Davis Club
    My Oxford Year
    Paris for One and Other Stories
    Florida
    Love & Gelato
    Love & Luck
    Finding Gobi: The true story of a little dog and an incredible journey
    Two Steps Forward
    The Rules Do Not Apply
    The Little Paris Bookshop
    Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
    Take Me with You
    The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
    One Indian Girl
    Do Not Become Alarmed
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    In a Sunburned Country
    Notes from a Small Island
    Eat, Pray, Love
    Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
    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
    Under the Tuscan Sun
    A Year in Provence
    Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
    On the Road
    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
    The Great Railway Bazaar

    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.
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    Marcel Proust
    The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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    Pascal Mercier
    We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.
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