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 Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWatership Down by Richard  AdamsRabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “ The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. ”
    ― St. Augustine

    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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