Preamble Grand Tour By Lewis H. Lapham A look at the history of the Grand Tour, and at the travels of the imagination. More
Essay A Little Travel Is a Dangerous Thing By D. Graham Burnett The first adventurers in the Age of Discovery didn’t just make progress into uncharted waters, they invented the very idea of progress. More
Essay Nowhere Need Be Foreign By Pico Iyer What should travel writing look like in a world where the global and local are more indistinguishable than ever? More
Essay The Vehicle of Language By Billy Collins Poetry invites us to take an imaginative journey: from the flatness of practical language into the rhythms and sound systems of poetic speech. More
Essay Take Nothing, Leave Nothing By Simon Winchester How I came to be banned from the world’s most remote island, Tristan da Cunha. More
