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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  • Everything in Between by Caitlin Elizabeth Sammons
    Everything in Between: essays, travel diaries + letters from around the world
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    Release date: May 03, 2020
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    Giveaway dates: Nov 08 - Nov 30, 2021

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  • Craving London by Jessica  Stone
    Craving London: Confessions of an Incurable Romantic with an Insatiable Appetite
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    A delicious escape for anglophiles, food lovers, and hopeful romantics.
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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

    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “ Not all those who wander are lost. ”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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