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2. Christopher Columbus's journal - Wikipedia

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   Created. 3 August 1492 — 15 March 1493. Present location. Unknown, presumed lost. Christopher Columbus's journal (Diario) is a diary and logbook written by Christopher Columbus about his first voyage. The journal covers events from 3 August 1492, when Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera, to 15 March 1493 and includes a prologue ...

3. The Log from the Sea of Cortez - Wikipedia

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   The Log from the Sea of Cortez is an English-language book written by American author John Steinbeck and published in 1951. It details a six-week (March 11 – April 20) marine specimen-collecting boat expedition he made in 1940 at various sites in the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez), with his friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts.

4. Logbook (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   Logbook (nautical) Logbook aboard the frigate Grand Turk. A logbook (a ship's logs or simply log) is a record of important events in the management, operation, and navigation of a ship. It is essential to traditional navigation, and must be filled in at least daily. The term originally referred to a book for recording readings from the chip log ...

5. Travel literature - Wikipedia

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   Literature. The genre of travel literature or travelogue encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs. [1] One early travel memoirist in Western literature was Pausanias, a Greek geographer of the 2nd century CE. In the early modern period, James Boswell 's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1786) helped shape ...

6. Trip.com - Wikipedia

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   The original business, built by entrepreneurs Travis Katz and Ori Zaltzman, was a travel booking site that featured user-generated content and "predictive intelligence-based technology." In October 2017, Trip.com was acquired by Chinese travel company Ctrip and became that company's flagship brand outside of China.

7. Guide book - Wikipedia

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   Guide book. A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists". [1] It will usually include information about sights, accommodation, restaurants, transportation, and activities. Maps of varying detail and historical and cultural information are often included.