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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    A Curated Guide: SEOUL
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    Real Places. Real Life. Real Seoul.
    A Local Guide to the Hottest City in Asia

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  • Miles & Miles by M W Hewitt
    Miles & Miles: A Lifetime of Travel in Asia and Latin America
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  • The Milk Lady of Bangalore by Shoba Narayan
    The Milk Lady of Bangalore: An Unexpected Adventure
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    Have Passport Will Travel
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    Lao Tzu
    “ The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ”
    ― Lao Tzu

    Anaïs Nin
    “ We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ”
    ― anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

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