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In 18th-century Britain, travel literature was highly popular, and almost every famous writer worked in the travel literature form; [13] Gulliver's Travels (1726), for example, is a social satire imitating one, and Captain James Cook's diaries (1784) were the equivalent of today's best-sellers. [14]
Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552–1616), English priest and travel writings compiler The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589) – a foundational text of the travel literature genre. [1] Seydi Ali Reis (1498–1563), Turkish sailor. Mirat ul Memalik (The Mirror of Countries) about his voyage to India
A time travel project probe from the year 2073 is sent to the year 1973 and goes wrong, creating a plague-ravaged, alternate timeline whose inhabitants are locked in a constant battle with killer robots. The hero must find a similar time machine in this alternate world and prevent the disaster from ever happening. 1994 Star Trek Generations
Time travel in modern fiction is sometimes achieved by space and time warps, stemming from the scientific theory of general relativity. [9] Stories from antiquity often featured time travel into the future through a time slip brought on by traveling or sleeping, in other cases, time travel into the past through supernatural means, for example brought on by angels or spirits.
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For example, in the Ukrainian language, the word "voda" means "water," but at the same time, the word "vodiy" has nothing in common with water and means "driver."
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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.