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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    A Grand Old Time
    The Book Thief by Markus ZusakMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniOceans of Trouble by Travis CaseyCutting for Stone by Abraham   Verghese
    Around the World through Fiction
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    298 books — 293 voters
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    I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
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    Jack Kerouac
    “ because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars... ”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

    Lao Tzu
    “ The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ”
    ― Lao Tzu

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