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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    Sit, Cinderella, Sit: A Mostly True Memoir

    Release date: Jan 14, 2025
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    City Eats: San Francisco—50 Recipes from the Best of the City by the Bay

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    Cocktail America: Over 200 Cocktails from America’s Greatest Cities

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    The Lincoln Highway
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    You, with a View
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    A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonAngela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtBecoming by Michelle ObamaThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
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    The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoOne Hot Italian Summer by Karina HalleThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
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    441 books — 233 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
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    True Life Adventure
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    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
    Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
    I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
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