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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  • No Longer Her(e) by Connie Kulczycki
    No Longer Her(e): A Woman’s Journey Through Breakups, Reinvention and the Search for Home
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    Release date: Jan 05, 2026
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  • The Cheese Cure by Michael Finnerty
    The Cheese Cure: How Comté and Camembert Fed My Soul

    Release date: Oct 21, 2025
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  • A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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    Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
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    418 books — 218 voters

    Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonBlood River by Tim ButcherThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
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    2,114 books — 1,843 voters
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    273 books — 173 voters


    Jack Kerouac
    What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. ...more
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

    Simone de Beauvoir
    I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
    Simone de Beauvoir

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