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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    Nala's World: One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride around the Globe

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    Bill Bryson
    “ But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of in ...more ”
    ― Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “ I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

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