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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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His Favorite Gifts for Travelers: The globetrotter behind the multicontinent spiritual quest Man Seeks God selects the ideal books to give to those with wanderlust.
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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― Ralph Waldo Emerson
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.
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― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
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