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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The Champagne Letters
Ex Marks the Spot
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The Jewel of the Isle
Elijah Goes to Philadelphia (Elijah Goes to....#2)
People We Meet on Vacation
PS: I Hate You
Wish You Were Here
The Summer Pact
Natural Selection
One Italian Summer
Nosotros en la Luna
The Lincoln Highway
West With Giraffes
You Are Here
The Medicine Woman of Galveston
Before We Were Innocent
What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts)
The Paris Novel
The Pairing
  • A Quest for God and Spices by Dean Cycon
    A Quest for God and Spices
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    Release date: Jan 21, 2025
    Happy new years to my favorite readers! Join a road trip through the geopolitical, mercantile and religious terrain of the medieval world.
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    Availability: 10 copies available, 4244 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jan 05 - Jan 17, 2025

    Countries available: U.S.

  • The Last American Road Trip by Sarah Kendzior
    The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir

    Release date: Apr 01, 2025
    We're giving away 50 ARC copies of THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP by Sarah Kendzior. ...more
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    Availability: 50 copies available, 3050 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jan 03 - Jan 24, 2025

    Countries available: U.S.

  • Worlds to Discover by Jim  Payne
    Worlds to Discover: Kayak Adventures One Inch Above the Water
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    Release date: May 10, 2015
    We're giving away eight signed copies of the first edition of this engrossing, humorous travel adventure book. ...more
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    Availability: 8 copies available, 2159 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jan 10 - Jan 30, 2025

    Countries available: U.S. and Canada

  • A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
    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
    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
    A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
    The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
    On the Road
    Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
    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 — 317 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
    Global Reading
    419 books — 260 voters

    The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankJourney to the West by Biao  WangEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
    Life in a Foreign Country
    773 books — 450 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
    376 books — 2,082 voters


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