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 Summer of Us
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Your Destination Is on the Left
The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places
Just One of the Royals (The Chicago Falcons, #2)
The Crossway
The Map of Salt and Stars
Love & Luck
9 Days and 9 Nights
A Lite Too Bright
Airports, Exes, and Other Things I'm Over
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
A Stone for Sascha

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “ Not all those who wander are lost. ”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “ I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. ”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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