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.

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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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Muse on Pegasus, by Odilon Redon, c. 1900.

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.

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Map

Beaten Paths

Brief histories of four famous routes.

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1865 | Rabbit Hole

The Long Way Down

Alice keeps falling and falling and falling...More

1846 | Oregon Trail

Rough Crossing

A pioneer woman heads west.More

1493 | Lisbon

Report to the Investors

Christopher Columbus recounts his New World adventures.More

Charts & Graphs

Danger on the High Seas

Famous maritime disasters.

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Sculpture bust of Greek historian Herodotus.

Engraving of Greek satirist Lucian.

Portrait bust of Roman poet Virgil.

Black and white photograph of Polish-born English writer Joseph Conrad.

Black and white photograph of English writer and traveler Gertrude Bell.

American author Evan S. Connell.

New York-based author Suketu Mehta.

German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879

American writer Dawn Powell.

Harriet Beecher Stowe & Dawn Powell

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