Chapter One asks the question why we travel, especially leisure travel. The chapter examines the motivations behind travel, provides a brief history of travel and travellers, and explains the objective of the book.
Laura Byrne Paquet is the author of The Urge to Splurge: A Social History of Shopping. Her articles have appeared in more than 70 publications in Canada, the U.S., and Europe, including National Geographic, Traveler, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, enRoute, Chatelaine, Canadian Living, and the Ottawa Citizen. Between her globe-trotting adventures, she finds time to write romance novels from her Ottawa home.
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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada. Ce projet est financé en partie par le gouvernement du Canada.