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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  • Field Guide to the Germans - A Witty and Insightful Guide to ... by Benjamin Barkow
    Field Guide to the Germans - A Witty and Insightful Guide to German Character, Culture and Quirks: Illustrated With Over 100 Colour Photos - Understanding German Humour, Habits, Values and Traditions
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    From punctuality to beer gardens — win this humorous all colour field guide with over 100 photos to understanding German character and culture.
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  • Life of an Expat Wife by JJ Henley
    Life of an Expat Wife
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    I am giving away 10 signed copies of my auto-fiction. Life experiences that will resonate with many. It might make you laugh, cry, even sympathize.

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  • Milo by Dale Weaver
    Milo: The Journey That Changed Everything
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    This beautifully illustrated story is a warm and whimsical children’s book about curiosity, adventure, heartwarming moments, and returning back home.
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    Our Secret Summer
    A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
    Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
    Road Trip
    One Italian Summer
    Happier Here With You
    Villa Coco
    Wish You Were Here
    The Paris Match
    You Are Here
    Murder Takes a Vacation
    The Lincoln Highway
    Good at Being Alive
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    Best Adventure Travel Memoir
    301 books — 292 voters
    The Game of VORs by Andrew OrangeOf Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García MárquezOjo por ojo by J.K. FrankoEcho by Thomas Olde HeuveltBlindness by José Saramago
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    Fictitious Africa
    561 books — 283 voters

    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
    2,047 books — 3,979 voters

    A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
    In a Sunburned Country
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    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
    Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    Into the Wild
    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
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    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

    Anaïs Nin
    “ We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ”
    ― anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

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