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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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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, 225 people requesting
Giveaway dates: Dec 21 - Jan 21, 2017
Countries available: US and CA
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Waiting On Fidel: or How I Almost Hitchhiked To Mexico City
by Stephen Edward Paper (Goodreads Author)
by Stephen Edward Paper (Goodreads Author)
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date: Aug 25, 2015
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Availability: 3 copies available, 221 people requesting
Giveaway dates: Dec 06 - Jan 06, 2017
Countries available: US and CA
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Down and Out in Kathmandu: Adventures in Backpacking (Adventures of Zelda Richardson, #1)
by Jennifer S. Alderson (Goodreads Author)
by Jennifer S. Alderson (Goodreads Author)
Release
date: Dec 16, 2015
Down and Out in Kathmandu is 1 year old, so I’m giving away 1 signed paperback to celebrate!
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Availability: 1 copy available, 570 people requesting
Giveaway dates: Dec 10 - Jan 09, 2017
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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.
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― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It
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