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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    Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

    Release date: Apr 17, 2012
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  • Analog Heart in Digital Days by Estelle H. Lee
    Analog Heart in Digital Days: Twelve Months, One Connection, a Heart Still Wandering
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    What happens when someone changes the way you see the world—but doesn’t stay in it?

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    Singing with the Trees: A pandemic adventure of growth and enlightenment down the backroads of Vancouver Island
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    Run for the Hills
    PS: I Hate You
    Natural Selection
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    There's Something About Mira
    You Are Here
    What If I Never Get Over You
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    The Paris Novel
    Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1)
    A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIn a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
    Favorite Travel Books
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    True Life Adventure
    386 books — 251 voters

    Arabian Sands by Wilfred ThesigerA Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh FermorA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor HeyerdahlIn Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
    Best Travel Writing
    314 books — 195 voters
    The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
    Around the World in 100 Books
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    A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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    Eat, Pray, Love
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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

    Terry Pratchett
    Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
    Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

    Jack Kerouac
    because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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