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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  • Rubbing Shoulders in Yemen by Peter Twele
    Rubbing Shoulders in Yemen
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    In "Rubbing Shoulders in Yemen" Peter embarks on a series of adventures into some of the remotest parts of Yemen … regions not under government contro…more View Details »
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    Live from Mongolia: From Wall Street Banker to Mongolian News Anchor
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    Giveaway dates: Sep 15 - Oct 15, 2013
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  • Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
    State of Wonder
    The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
    Just One Day (Just One Day, #1)
    The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
    Ink (Paper Gods, #1)
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    The Runaway King (The Ascendance Trilogy, #2)
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    A House in the Sky
    The Newlyweds
    You Are One of Them
    The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
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    A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
    In a Sunburned Country
    Eat, Pray, Love
    Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
    I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
    Under the Tuscan Sun
    A Year in Provence
    1,000 Places to See Before You Die
    Into the Wild
    Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
    On the Road
    The Great Railway Bazaar
    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

    Sue Monk Kidd
    Sue Monk Kidd Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
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    Ernest Hemingway
    It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
    Ernest Hemingway

    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.
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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    Night Traveler
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