Mappe-Monde ou Carte Genérale de la Terre Divisée en Deux Hémispheres, by Nicolas de Fer, first published in 1694.

Mappe-Monde ou Carte Genérale de la Terre Divisée en Deux Hémispheres, by Nicolas de Fer, first published in 1694.

Travel

Volume II, Number 3 | summer 2009

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Emperor Joseph II with Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany, by Pompeo Batoni, 1769.

Preamble

Grand Tour

By Lewis H. Lapham

A look at the history of the Grand Tour, and at the travels of the imagination.

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British overseas territory Tristan da Cunha, 2012. Photograph by Brian Gratwicke.

Take Nothing, Leave Nothing

By Simon Winchester

How I came to be banned from the world’s most remote island, Tristan da Cunha.

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Map

Beaten Paths

Brief histories of four famous routes.

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1586 | Saqqara

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Letter from an English mummy smuggler.More

1541 | New Mexico

Laboring in Vain

The search for cities of gold.More

1865 | Rabbit Hole

The Long Way Down

Alice keeps falling and falling and falling...More

Charts & Graphs

The Odyssey Game

Lose years, gain strength, return to wife.

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Photograph of American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac.

Mosaic portrait of a bearded man in red holding a book

Bust of Hesiod

American writer Dawn Powell.

American author Evan S. Connell.

Photograph of Charles Baudelaire

Sculpture bust of Greek historian Herodotus.

Photograph of pilot, horse trainer, writer, and adventurer Beryl Markham on horseback.

One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

American writer Dawn Powell.

Harriet Beecher Stowe & Dawn Powell

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