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

The Loose Ends List
The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping
F Is for France: A Curious Cabinet of French Wonders
All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World
Hogs Wild: Selected Reporting Pieces
Backpacker the National Parks Coast to Coast: 100 Best Hikes
Love & Gelato
Wanderlost
The Way Back to You
Enchanted Islands
Wandering Wild
Braving It: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild
Dear Fang, With Love

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  • The Martian
    Take Me with You
    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
    The Little Paris Bookshop
    The Vacationers
    Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
    Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians #1)
    Beautiful Ruins
    The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
    Love & Gelato
    Just One Day (Just One Day, #1)
    Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
    A Thousand Pieces of You (Firebird, #1)
    Just One Year (Just One Day, #2)
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    Favourite Travel Books
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    Ruby Red by Kerstin GierEmerald Green by Kerstin GierSapphire Blue by Kerstin GierAlice of the Rocks by E. GrazianiMiss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
    YA Time Travel Romance
    91 books — 89 voters

    Voyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson WhiteThe Girl Who Came Home by Hazel GaynorFateful by Claudia GrayThe Dressmaker by Kate AlcottDestined by Allison Kraft
    Fiction books about the Titanic
    87 books — 93 voters
    The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneEast of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckWalden by Henry David Thoreau
    A Journey Through Literary America
    125 books — 156 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
    267 books — 1,850 voters

    A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
    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
    Notes from a Small Island
    Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
    1,000 Places to See Before You Die
    The Great Railway Bazaar
    The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World


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    Anna Quindlen
    Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
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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.
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