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 Road to Tender Hearts
You Are Here
Wish You Were Here
One Italian Summer
The Lincoln Highway
West With Giraffes
The Highland Fling
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
All That Life Can Afford
Astérix en Lusitanie (Asterix #41)
Run for the Hills
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The View From Lake Como
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  • I've Got a Guy by Michael Albanese
    I've Got a Guy: Stories, Thoughts, and a Few Confessions from a Hospitality Rebel
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    Release date: Dec 14, 2025
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    Number of copies: 50

    Giveaway dates: Dec 30 - Jan 11, 2026

    Countries available: U.S.

  • Raiders, Rulers, and Traders by David Chaffetz
    Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires
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    Release date: Jul 15, 2025
    Ride into the Year of the Horse with your free copy of Raiders, Rulers and Traders, the Horse and the Rise of Empires.
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    Number of copies: 20

    Giveaway dates: Jan 08 - Jan 20, 2026

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  • From Sea to Shining Sea by John Christopher Frame
    From Sea to Shining Sea: 50 Daily Devotions from Traveling to Every State in America

    Release date: Jan 20, 2026
    50 States. 50 Devotions. A devotional journey inspired by real travels to all 50 states, inviting you to draw closer to God—one day at a time.
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    Number of copies: 10

    Giveaway dates: Dec 22 - Jan 21, 2026

    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
    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
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    True Life Adventure
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    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
    My Favourite Non Fiction Books
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    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
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    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
    800 books — 396 voters
    Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
    Fictitious Africa
    547 books — 265 voters


    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    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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