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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  • Vintage 1954 by Antoine Laurain
    Vintage 1954
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    Imagine drinking a glass of fine French vintage wine and waking up in 1954 Paris!

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  • Babel by Gaston Dorren
    Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
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    From the celebrated author of LINGO, a whistle-stop tour of the world’s twenty most-spoken languages, exploring history, geography, linguistics, and c ...more
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  • Horizon by Barry  Lopez
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    From the National Book Award-winning author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams, a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the w ...more
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    Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
    Under the Tuscan Sun
    A Year in Provence
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    Mark Twain
    “ I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. ”
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    “ To travel is to live. ”
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