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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    The Journey Inward: A Path to Discovery, Determination, and the Value of Friendship
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    The French for Always
    From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
    Again, but Better
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    I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
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    Terry Pratchett
    “ Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. ”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

    Anna Quindlen
    “ In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. ”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

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