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The Ten Best Books About Travel of 2025

Smithsonian magazine's picks for the best books about travel of 2025 include Adventures in the Louvre, On the Hippie Trail ...
100 Nights of a Lifetime: The World’s Ultimate Adventures After Dark was published by National Geographic in 2024 and written by travel writer and photographer—and aurora borealis hunter ...
Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature. We may earn a commission from your purchases. What makes time-travel books so fascinating? A key genre of the science fiction ecosystem, ...
When I look back on my childhood, I think about all the days I spend fantasising about the world and pretending to be an ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. With a mix of people and exotic ports of call, cruise ships are ...
Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In 1956, the poet Elizabeth Bishop worried about the imprudence and absurdity of going abroad. “Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?” she writes in ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. Looking for an escape from the everyday grind? A travel-themed ...
See the actress' picks for her favorite travel-inspired books that are set in every corner of the globe, from London and Los Angeles to Rome and Cairo Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter ...
If Black girls didn’t feel like they belonged in the travel space before, they may likely feel a sense of belonging now. We’re seeing more melanin than ever as Black women live their best lives abroad ...
Travel can bring us from the far-flung corners of the planet to a tiny little perch right in our own backyard. It might inspire and enlighten us, awaken emotions inside us that we never knew existed, ...
It’s that time of year! As the months turn colder, we inevitably begin spending more time indoors, and for those of us without immediate travel plans—or for those who spend their days traveling with a ...