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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  • Worlds to Discover Kayak Adventures One Inch above the Water by Jim  Payne
    Worlds to Discover Kayak Adventures One Inch above the Water
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    Release date: Jun 17, 2015
    We're giving away 10 first-edition copies of this remarkable travel adventure book by Jim Payne about his expeditions on the Connecticut and Ohio R ...more
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    Availability: 10 copies available, 1569 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jan 08 - Jan 20, 2022

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  • The Modern Caravan by Kate   Oliver
    The Modern Caravan: Stories of Love, Beauty, and Adventure on the Open Road
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    Release date: Mar 01, 2022
    For anyone who wants to travel.
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  • Bedrolls, Bushes and Beaches by Ron    White
    Bedrolls, Bushes and Beaches: The Hippie Years
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    Release date: Jan 07, 2019
    Against the backdrop of the Vietnam War—with the ongoing saga of his draft status and other historical events of the time—Ron White’s adventures, at h ...more
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  • A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
    In a Sunburned Country
    Notes from a Small Island
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    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
    Into the Wild
    Travels with Charley: In Search of America
    Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
    I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
    A Year in Provence
    Under the Tuscan Sun
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    The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
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    Mark Twain
    “ Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ...more ”
    ― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

    Lao Tzu
    “ A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. ”
    ― Lao Tzu

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    Heart
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