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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    Anna Quindlen
    “ Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. ”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “ All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost. ”
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