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 the ...more

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So, I Met This Guy
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    From Grief to Love: Walking Around England and Wales
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    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
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    Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
    A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
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    Anita Desai
    Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    To travel is to live.
    Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

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