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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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  • Literary Places by Sarah  Baxter
    Literary Places (Inspired Traveller's Guide)
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    Release date: Mar 05, 2019
    Explore the landscapes and places that inspired great novels: travel to the sun-scorched plains of Don Quixote’s La Mancha, roam the wild Yorkshire mo ...more
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    Availability: 5 copies available, 2024 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Feb 05 - Mar 05, 2019

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  • Are We French Yet? Keith & Val's Adventures in Provence by Keith Van Sickle
    Are We French Yet? Keith & Val's Adventures in Provence
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    Release date: Dec 12, 2018
    Val and Keith turned their lives upside down when they quit their jobs and began living in Provence. But they wondered: Can we really become French?

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  • In the Chasms of Water, Stone, and Light by John Annerino
    In the Chasms of Water, Stone, and Light: Passages Through the Grand Canyon
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    Release date: Feb 28, 2019
    From the supernal peaks of sacred temples to the depths of roaring river rapids, author/photographer/adventurer John Annerino takes us off the Grand C ...more
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  • A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
    In a Sunburned Country
    Notes from a Small Island
    Eat, Pray, Love
    Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
    Into the Wild
    I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
    Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
    Under the Tuscan Sun
    A Year in Provence
    On the Road
    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
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    Eric Weiner
    Eric    Weiner Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine
    His Favorite Gifts for Travelers: The globetrotter behind the multicontinent spiritual quest Man Seeks God selects the ideal books to give to those with wanderlust.
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    I read; I travel; I become
    “ I read; I travel; I become ”
    ― Derek Walcott

    Augustine of Hippo
    “ The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. ”
    ― St. Augustine

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