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 Tourist Attraction (Moose Springs, Alaska #1)
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  • Kindred Journeys by Marjorie Tapley-Olson
    Kindred Journeys
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    The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
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    French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris
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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
    “ I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. ”
    ― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

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