Table of Contents

2009 Summer

Travel

Introductory

• Grand Tour: by Lewis H. Lapham

Voices in Time

Departures

• Paul Theroux Escapes: 2003 / Africa
• Categorical Imperatives: 1768 / Calais
• Orpheus Aboard the Argo: c. 1200 BC / Pagasae
• Aldous Huxley Packs Light: 1924 / Italy
• Trust No One: 1777 / Perpignan
• Travels with Herodotus: c. 425 BC / Ancient World
• Small World: 1790 / Turin
• Not Too Late to Seek a Newer World: c. 1174 BC / Ithaca
• Matsuo Basho Walks Out: 1689 / Japan
• Stay Home, Young Man: 1787 / Paris
• Point of No Return: 1970 / Istanbul
• Crusade: 1095 / Clermont
• The Long Way Down: 1865 / Rabbit Hole
• Charmed by a Snake: 1902 / Congo River
• Graveyard: 1892 / Kansas
• Safe Conduct: 1889 / London
• Sailing Time: c. 700 BC / Boeotia
• Before the Mast: 1851 / New York City

In Transit

• Train of Thought: 2002 / London
• The Road Less Traveled: 1336 / Mount Ventoux
• Mass of Asphalt and Automobiles: 1935 / United States
• Hotel Rooms: 1854 / Mississippi
• Don Quixote Embarks on the Course of Discovery: 1615 / Spain
• Beryl Markham Abandons Reason: 1936 / Atlantic Ocean
• Skinning the Beast: c. 600 / Arabia
• Trade Mission: c. 1419 / Indian Ocean
• The Art of Walking: 1862 / Concord
• Wagons East: 1332 / Turkestan
• Economy Class: 1987 / Brazil
• Train Hopping: 1932 / Texas
• Father Tomás de la Torre in the Hands of God: 1544 / Atlantic Ocean
• Marcel Proust Is Interrupted: c. 1900 / Balbec
• Alpha and Omega: c. 1925 / Lisbon
• Pilgrims' Progress: c. 630 / India
• Wandering Heretic: 1577 / Italy
• Tobias Wolff Chases the Dream: 1955 / Utah
• On the Edge of a Precipice: 218 BC / Alps
• Rough Crossing: 1846 / Oregon Trail
• Uncharted Paper: 1957 / Bennington
• Marco Polo's Notes: c. 1283 / Asia
• Laboring in Vain: 1541 / New Mexico
• The Golden Land Ahead of Jack Kerouac: 1949 / United States

Destinations

• Calvin Trillin Goes South for the Soup: 2005 / Cuenca
• Where Vice Is Suffered to Walk at Large: 1784 / Auteuil
• Launched by Waterspout: c. 150 / The Moon
• Developing Nation: 1893 / United States
• The Haggle: 1933 / Damascus
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Finds New Wine in Old Bottles: c. 1786 / Rome
• A Frail and Ancient Dream: 1970 / Timbuctoo
• Blueprint: c. 1274 / Zobeide
• Lewis and Clark Go West: c. 1805 / North America
• Amazons: 23 / Albania
• James Baldwin Is the Sight To Be Seen: 1955 / Switzerland
• Descending into the Gorge of Hell: c. 1174 BC / River Styx
• The Real India: 1924 / Chandrapore
• Holy Tears: c. 1414 / Jerusalem
• Physiognomy: 1958 / Ghana
• Postcard: c. 150 BC / Boeotia
• Birds Warbling Psalms: 1809 / Plymouth
• The Corset Stays: 1717 / Adrianople
• Luxury Cruise: 1995 / Caribbean Sea
• Going into the Sun: 1850 / Cairo
• Gertrude Bell Among Nomads: 1892 / Persia
• Second Thoughts: 1956 / Brazil

Returns

• Suketu Mehta Revisits the Land of His Birth: 1998 / Bombay
• Happy Ending: c. 1174 BC / Ithaca
• Mark Twain’s Homecoming: 1883 / Hannibal
• Exile: 8 / Tomis
• Tell Me About It: 1926 / New York City
• Home Alone: c. 1100 BC / China
• Steerage Class: 1842 / Liverpool
• Souvenir: 1586 / Saqqara
• Ernest Shackleton’s War Is Over: 1916 / Antarctica
• At Rest: c. 800 / Basra
• Hither and Yon: c. 63 / Rome
• Report to the Investors: 1493 / Lisbon
• J.-K. Huysmans Avoids Disappointment: 1884 / Paris
• Virtual Reality: 1658 / Lérida
• True Blue: c. 1600 / China Sea
• What Greater Bliss: c. 65 BC / Sirmio
• No Direction Home: 1960 / New York City

Departments

Essays

• A Little Travel Is a Dangerous Thing: by D. Graham Burnett
• Take Nothing, Leave Nothing: by Simon Winchester
• The Vehicle of Language: by Billy Collins

Reconsiderations

• Travel Writing: Nowhere Need Be Foreign: by Pico Iyer

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