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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  • Memorias de una senda inexplorada by Luis Terreros
    Memorias de una senda inexplorada
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    Release date: May 20, 2020
    Luis relata, la peripecia de su viaje a Estados Unidos, desde Cuenca, su ciudad natal en Ecuador, una aventura por la que había pasado gran parte de s ...more
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  • Spy Sites of Philadelphia by H. Keith Melton
    Spy Sites of Philadelphia: A Guide to the Region's Secret History

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    Craving London: Confessions of an Incurable Romantic with an Insatiable Appetite
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    Jack Kerouac
    “ What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. ...more ”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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

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