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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    Big Fan: Two Friends, 82,490 Miles, and the Wild, Wonderful Sports We Love
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    The Last Days of Summer: A Novel

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

    E.E. Cummings
    may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.
    E.E. Cummings

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