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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    The Wisdom of Rivers: Family, Friendship, and the Fly-Fishing Life

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  • The Traveler's Path by Douglas J. Brouwer
    The Traveler's Path: Finding Spiritual Growth and Inspiration Through Travel
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    You Are Here
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    In a Sunburned Country
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    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
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    I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
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    Mark Twain
    Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ...more
    Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

    J.R.R. Tolkien
    All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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