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 theTravel 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 intent being to educate the reader about the destination, provide helpful advice for those visiting the destination, and inspire readers to travel to the destination. Travel writing has also been produced by other types of travelers, such as military officers, missionaries, explorers, scientists, pilgrims, and migrants....more
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The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Life and Death on Pompeii’s Final Day
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Release date: Apr 21, 2026
Enter for a chance to win 1 of 45 galleys and bring the past to life with this compelling new history of the last fateful day of ancient Pompeii
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Availability: 45 copies available, 3295 people requesting
Giveaway dates: Feb 01 - Feb 20, 2026
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Hit The Road And Thrive: Seven Secrets for Living the Dream
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Release date: Dec 01, 2023
Hope you enjoy the book and learn some rules of the road and you live a better life as the result of finding the formula for successful adventuring
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Availability: 100 copies available, 508 people requesting
Giveaway dates: Jan 23 - Feb 21, 2026
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The Patchwork Cloak of Kamal Bey: An East-West Memoir
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Release date: Sep 15, 2025
A captivating travel memoir set in the Middle East about cross-cultural dissonance and a quixotic quest to find home.
While travelling to his grandfathA captivating travel memoir set in the Middle East about cross-cultural dissonance and a quixotic quest to find home.
While travelling to his grandfather’s ancestral town in rural eastern Turkey, journalist John Zada is mistakenly hauled off an overnight bus at a military roadblock and pulled into a dragnet searching for outlawed rebels. During that abrupt encounter Zada experiences a series of vivid flashbacks from his life and travels in the Middle East, which led him to that dangerous moment.
The Patchwork Cloak of Kamal An East-West Memoir is a collection of interlocking travel stories tied to a decades-long quest through the Arab World to find a more enduring sense of home. Born to westernized Arab parents, and driven by his discontent with North American life, Zada throws himself headlong into the Middle East to find what he believes to be the missing part of himself.
That journey, first as student and then as a roving journalist, takes him from the cosmopolitan boulevards of Cairo, Beirut and Dubai to the far-flung mountains of Kurdistan and the Sahara Desert. Mirroring the author’s wanderings is his lifelong mentor, Kamal a spinner of yarns with a confidential government job who, like Zada, also uncomfortably straddles civilizations.
A kaleidoscopic memoir that is also a travelogue and work of reportage evoking the writing of Ryszard Kapuściński, The Patchwork Cloak of Kamal Bey is at its heart a reverse-diaspora story. Its pastiche of surreal and remarkable tales serves as an oblique warning about the danger of identity obsessions....more
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While travelling to his grandfathA captivating travel memoir set in the Middle East about cross-cultural dissonance and a quixotic quest to find home.
While travelling to his grandfather’s ancestral town in rural eastern Turkey, journalist John Zada is mistakenly hauled off an overnight bus at a military roadblock and pulled into a dragnet searching for outlawed rebels. During that abrupt encounter Zada experiences a series of vivid flashbacks from his life and travels in the Middle East, which led him to that dangerous moment.
The Patchwork Cloak of Kamal An East-West Memoir is a collection of interlocking travel stories tied to a decades-long quest through the Arab World to find a more enduring sense of home. Born to westernized Arab parents, and driven by his discontent with North American life, Zada throws himself headlong into the Middle East to find what he believes to be the missing part of himself.
That journey, first as student and then as a roving journalist, takes him from the cosmopolitan boulevards of Cairo, Beirut and Dubai to the far-flung mountains of Kurdistan and the Sahara Desert. Mirroring the author’s wanderings is his lifelong mentor, Kamal a spinner of yarns with a confidential government job who, like Zada, also uncomfortably straddles civilizations.
A kaleidoscopic memoir that is also a travelogue and work of reportage evoking the writing of Ryszard Kapuściński, The Patchwork Cloak of Kamal Bey is at its heart a reverse-diaspora story. Its pastiche of surreal and remarkable tales serves as an oblique warning about the danger of identity obsessions....more
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Availability: 50 copies available, 567 people requesting
Giveaway dates: Jan 31 - Feb 21, 2026
Countries available: U.S.
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“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.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
― Jack Kerouac,On the Road
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson,Emerson's Essays
― Ralph Waldo Emerson,Emerson's Essays
A group to share books and sources that can help regular people with 9-5 (or 9-9) jobs to explor…more
[close] A group to share books and sources that can help regular people with 9-5 (or 9-9) jobs to explore the world using their precious annual leave
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This group is fun way for those participating in the Marshall Public Library's annual adult read…more
[close] This group is fun way for those participating in the Marshall Public Library's annual adult reading challenge to track their reading and share book ideas with others.
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This group is being established to encourage community interaction with the Germantown Warhawk B…more[close] This group is being established to encourage community interaction with the Germantown Warhawk Bands and the community surrounding it in Germantown, Richfield and beyond, and to have cultural awareness of traveling to Spain prior to our trip. To foster a sense of community and adventure for the upcoming Germantown Warhawk Bands trip to Madrid, Spain in Dec 2025/Jan 2026 to participate in the city's Cabalgata de Reyes parade on 01/05/2026, this list will initially feature books related to Spain's culture, music, architecture, food , art and history, that may be of interest to those making the trip and their surrounding community.We encourage the use of the Germantown Community Library as a source for books, and encourage people to explore the Library's Monarch Catalog as a means to access materials throughout the library system.
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Il gruppo ha l'intento di girare il mondo attraverso la lettura, nel tentativo di scoprire cultu…more[close] Il gruppo ha l'intento di girare il mondo attraverso la lettura, nel tentativo di scoprire culture, luoghi, autori e libri di cui forse prima sapevamo poco. Il gruppo è aperto a tutti e si rivolge in particolare agli utenti di lingua italiana.Se vuoi contattare i moderatori in privato puoi utilizzare l'indirizzo di posta libridalmondo@gmail.com
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