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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  • Diving into Dreams by Szilvia Gogh
    Diving into Dreams: Navigating Life’s Deepest Waters to Discover the Secret of Having Enough
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    Close your eyes and picture the person living the life you want. Do you see yourself, or are you thinking of someone else?

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    Giveaway dates: Nov 16 - Dec 16, 2025

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  • The Trail by Ethan Gallogly
    The Trail
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    Win a Kindle copy of The Trail—a story about how time in nature transforms two unlikely companions on the John Muir Trail.
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    The World Is Your Playground: A Journey from a Small Town to Every Country on Earth
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  • 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
    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
    The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
    On the Road
    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
    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
    Reading Italy
    444 books — 237 voters
    Arabian Sands by Wilfred ThesigerWinging It  by Lia RussA Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh FermorA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl
    Best Travel Writing
    317 books — 218 voters

    The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaShantaram by Gregory David RobertsSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse
    India
    1,012 books — 862 voters
    A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonIn a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonThe Great Railway Bazaar by Paul TherouxTravels with Charley by John SteinbeckThe Trigger by Tim Butcher
    Have Passport Will Travel
    704 books — 587 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
    418 books — 218 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
    796 books — 392 voters


    Marcel Proust
    The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
    Marcel Proust

    But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of in ...more
    Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

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