Travel genre books (119)


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Invisible Cities

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future.

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Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino EN

Rating: 3 (6 votes)
Country: North America / Cuba flag Cuba
Description:
In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future.

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Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
A New York Times "New Nonfiction to Read This Spring" Recommendation - A Guardian "Nonfiction to Look Forward To in 2025" Pick - A Washington Post "Book to Watch For" in 2025 - A Financial Times "What to Read in 2025" Selection - A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of 2025 - A Next Big Idea Club May 2025 Must-Read Book From the best-selling author of Underland and "the great nature writer...of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), a revelatory book that transforms how we imagine rivers--and life itself.

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Island of the Lost : An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World by Joan Druett EN

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Description:
“Riveting.” —The New York Times Book Review Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island in this true story of human nature at its best—and at its worst. It is 1864, and Captain Thomas Musgrave’s schooner, the Grafton, has just wrecked on Auckland Island, a forbidding piece of land 285 miles south of New Zealand. Battered by year-round freezing rain and constant winds, it is one of the most inhospitable places on earth. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. Incredibly, at the same time on the opposite end of the island, another... continue

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Kilimanjaro : A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa by Michel Moushabeck EN

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Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Description:
A SPECTACULAR COLLECTION OF IMAGES AND WORDS THAT OFFER A DETAILED GLIMPSE INTO THE UNIQUE BEAUTY AND RHYTHM OF AFRICA’S NATURAL WONDER. Mount Kilimanjaro is the African continent’s highest mountain and the world’s tallest freestanding mountain. It is a geological wonder formed, sculpted, and molded by the natural forces of volcanic fire and glacial ice. At 19,340 feet (5895 meters) high, Kilimanjaro towers above the Great Rift Valley and lies 3 degrees south of the equator, on the northern border of Tanzania, close to southeast Kenya. Kilimanjaro is an accessible mountain that one can climb w... continue

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Kololo Hill by Neema Shah EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
From the green hilltops of Kampala, to the terraced houses of London, Neema Shah’s extraordinarily moving debut Kololo Hill explores what it means to leave your home behind, what it takes to start again, and the lengths some will go to protect their loved ones. 'Shah explores the chaos and fear of ordinary people’s lives during Amin’s rule, weaving personal stories of love and betrayal into heightening tension and violence . . . nail-biting.' - Independent Uganda, 1972. A devastating decree is issued: all Ugandan Asians must leave the country in ninety days. They must take only what they can c... continue

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Kon-Tiki : Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
The story of the Pacific journey by six men on a raft in search of the path taken by Kon-Tiki, a white voyager, 1500 years before. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Le vagabond américain en voie de disparition by Jack Kerouac FR

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Nouvelles extraites du recueil Le vagabond solitaire


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Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Description:
NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “An epic road trip [that also] captures the unruly intimacies of marriage and parenthood ... This is a novel that daylights our common humanity, and challenges us to reconcile our differences.” —The Washington Post In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends, an artist couple set out with their two children on a road trip from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. As the family travels west, the bonds between them begin to fray: a fracture is growing between the parents, one the chil... continue