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The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain. [ 2] Published in 1869, it humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered steamship Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867 ...
A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell ), through central and southern Europe .
Beginning in 1919, travel abroad required the approval of the NKVD, with the additional consent of the Special Department of the Cheka added in 1920. [3] In 1922, after the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR , both the Ukrainian SSR and the Russian SFSR issued general rules for travel that foreclosed virtually all departures, making legal ...
A c. 1760 painting of James Grant, John Mytton, Thomas Robinson and Thomas Wynne on the Grand Tour by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tutor or family member ...
A diaspora ( / daɪˈæspərə / dy-ASP-ər-ə) is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin. [ 3][ 4] The word is used in reference to people who identify with a specific geographic location, but currently reside elsewhere. [ 5][ 6][ 7]
Pakistan to US Student Exchange Program, July 2011. A student exchange program is a program in which students from a secondary school (high school) or higher education study abroad at one of their institution's partner institutions. [ 1] A student exchange program may involve international travel, but does not necessarily require the student to ...
A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place, designed for the use of visitors or tourists". [44] An early example is Thomas West's guide to the English Lake District, published in 1778. [45] Thomas West, an English priest, popularized the idea of walking for pleasure in his guide to the Lake District of 1778. In the ...
Travel in classical antiquity over long distances was a specialised undertaking. Most travel was done in the interest of warfare, diplomacy, general state building, or trade. Social motivations for travel included visiting religious sites, festivals such as the Olympics, and health-related reasons. Most travel was difficult and expensive, due ...