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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
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Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon
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Motions and Moments: More Essays on Tokyo
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Perfect City: An Urban Fixer's Global Search for Magic in the Modern Metropolis
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Joe Berridge, a world-leading fixer of great cities, takes you on an insider's tour of global capitals, examines their struggles and successes, and sh
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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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Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.
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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.
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― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
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