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 Miles 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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    A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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    Eric    Weiner Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine
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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

    Mark Twain
    “ Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ”
    ― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

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