Genre :: Travel (11 books)

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  #18

  On the Road

  by Jack Kerouac

  (14 Reviews)

  543 Points

  "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up."

  

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  #176

  A Moveable Feast

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (3 Reviews)

  113 Points

  "Then there was the bad weather."

  

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  #261

  Tristes Tropiques

  by Claude Lévi-Strauss

  (1 Review)

  81 Points

  "I hate travelling and explorers.Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs."

  

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  #302

  Cider with Rosie

  by Laurie Lee

  (3 Reviews)

  71 Points

  "I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began."

  

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  #317

  Three Men in a Boat

  by Jerome K. Jerome

  (7 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "There were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency."

  

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  #464

  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

  by Robert M. Pirsig

  (3 Reviews)

  33 Points

  "I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning."

  

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  #479

  You Shall Know Our Velocity

  by Dave Eggers

  (1 Review)

  30 Points

  "I was talking to Hand, one of my two best friends, the one still alive, and we were planning to leave."

  

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  #497

  Notes from a small island

  by Bill Bryson

  (5 Reviews)

  27 Points

  "My first sight of England was on a foggy March night in 1973 when I arrived on the midnight ferry from Calais."

  

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  #515

  The Sheltering Sky

  by Paul Bowles

  (4 Reviews)

  22 Points

  "He awoke, opened his eyes.Si svegliò, aprì gli occhi. La stanza gli diceva poco o niente, profondamente immerso com'era nel non-essere da cui era appena affiorato. Se l'energia di accertare la..."

  

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  #546

  Down and out in Paris and London

  by George Orwell

  (3 Reviews)

  15 Points

  "The Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning. A succession of furious, choking yells from the street. Madame Monce, who kept the little hotel opposite mine, had come out on to the pavement to..."

  

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