travelogue

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  1. noun A lecture about travel, often accompanied by a film, a video, or slides.
  2. noun A narrated film or video about travel.

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  • Such a happy circumstance would add to the value of my travelogue -- my fans are, like everyone else in the universe, curious about the sexual customs of faraway people. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 06 - June 1995
  • We'd have a name if we could; can you imagine how difficult it is to advertise a nameless place I was very uncomfortable with this conversation; my prospects for making a successful travelogue, at least in the customary mode, seemed to be fading. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 06 - June 1995
  • The international musical travelogue, a kind of parade of nations on stage, required Audrey and four other dancers to cavort through a host of foreign capitals in skimpy costumes. —  Audrey Hepburn
  • The book begins as a travelogue or a history, becomes a pastorale, a low comedy, a high comedy, a ghost story and a detective story. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 01 - July 1999
  • The magical rituals of day-to-day life read a little too much like a travelogue, or the work of one of those mainstream writers who depends too much upon brand names to evoke mood and description, rather than calling up the resonance one looks for in a fantasy. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 02 - February 1995
 

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