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Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations. Travel can be done by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip. [1] Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements, as in the case of tourism.
In the late 20th century there was a surge in popularity of travel writing, particularly in the English-speaking world with writers such as Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux, Jonathan Raban, Colin Thubron, and others. While travel writing previously had mainly attracted interest by historians and biographers, critical studies of travel literature now ...
Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa and the Holy Land (1837) Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia and Poland (1838) Incidents of Travel in Central American, Chiapas and Yucatán (1841) Incidents of Travel in Yucatán (1843) Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) Journey to America (1831–1832) Nehemiah Adams (1806-1878)
Tourists at the Temple of Apollo, Delphi, Greece. Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. [1] UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more ...
George Taylor (played by Charlton Heston) is an astronaut who travels to Earth in the distant future, due to the effects of time dilation, and finds that it is inhabited by intelligent, talking apes. 1970 Beneath the Planet of the Apes: Ted Post: Brent, an astronaut, travels to a future Earth ruled by apes.
A mode of transport is a method or way of travelling, or of transporting people or cargo. [1] The different modes of transport include air, water, and land transport, which includes rails or railways, road and off-road transport. Other modes of transport also exist, including pipelines, cable transport, and space transport.
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The Rihla, formal title A Masterpiece to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Traveling, is the travelogue written by Ibn Battuta, documenting his lifetime of travel and exploration, which according to his description covered about 73,000 miles (117,000 km).