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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    In Pursuit of Disobedient Women: A Memoir of Love, Rebellion, and Family, Far Away

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    Craving London: Confessions of an Incurable Romantic with an Insatiable Appetite
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “ I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger. ”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir

    Anna Quindlen
    “ In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. ”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

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