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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    Coming Alive on the Ride: A Memoir of Motorcycle Travel, Self-Discovery, and Korean Heritage
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    Diversions and Delights in Costa del Sol: Two Old Fogies Divert Disasters and Experience Culinary Delights in Southern Spain (Senior Travel Series)
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    G.K. Chesterton
    The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
    G.K. Chesterton

    Ursula K. Le Guin
    It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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