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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  • 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, 2617 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jan 10 - Jan 30, 2025

    Countries available: U.S. and Canada

  • Breakfast Wine by Alex Poppe
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    Release date: Jun 10, 2025
    3 ARCs of my new memoir, Breakfast Wine! For those who dream of chucking the doldrums of daily life in search of adventure & purpose, this is for you!
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    Availability: 3 copies available, 2043 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jan 14 - Jan 31, 2025

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  • Becoming Amazed by Brenda E.  Smith
    Becoming Amazed: Discovering the World with Eyes Wide Open
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    Release date: Nov 18, 2024
    Featured in Extraordinary Travelers Club (ETC) Jan 2025 issue of Dispatch. Dive into eight daring adventures so vivid, you'll feel you're there. ...more
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    Availability: 100 copies available, 651 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jan 03 - Feb 01, 2025

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  • A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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    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
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    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
    Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
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    376 books — 2,080 voters

    The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakLife of Pi by Yann Martel
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    2,331 books — 2,695 voters
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    2,988 books — 837 voters


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