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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    Sue Monk Kidd
    Sue Monk Kidd Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France
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    Anna Quindlen
    “ Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. ”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

    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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