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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
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Uncorked : My year in Provence studying pétanque, discovering Chagall, drinking pastis, and mangling French
by Paul Shore (Goodreads Author)
by Paul Shore (Goodreads Author)
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date: Feb 05, 2017
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Availability: 10 copies available, 373 people requesting
Giveaway dates: Jan 08 - Jan 22, 2017
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100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
by Aaron Lauritsen (Goodreads Author)
by Aaron Lauritsen (Goodreads Author)
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date: Jan 21, 2016
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Availability: 1 copy available, 376 people requesting
Giveaway dates: Dec 21 - Jan 21, 2017
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India and Nepal – Truth is stranger than fiction: A Himalayan Adventure
by Matti Munnukka (Goodreads Author)
by Matti Munnukka (Goodreads Author)
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date: Mar 29, 2016
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We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.
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― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
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You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.
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― Roman Payne
― Roman Payne
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