travel book
Portable destination guide
A travel book is a book about journeys to particular places, combining descriptions of destinations with the author's observations and experiences.
The genre ranges from practical guidebooks to literary narratives: She picked up a travel book on Portugal before her trip.
Travel books may focus on geography, culture, adventure, or personal transformation through travel.
- atlasBound collection of charts
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- diaryPersonal daily record
- armchairUpholstered seat with supports
- logbookOfficial record of events
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- coffee table bookshardcovers, monographs, retrospectives, collector editions, limited editions
- navigation aidscompass, maps, road signs, signs, GPS
- pocket bookspocketbook, pocket dictionary, pocket bible, pocket guide, pocket reference
- booksnovel, textbooks, study guides, paperback, hardcover
travel booknovel
New and unusual
fiction · fantasy novel · literary fiction · science fiction · romance novel
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