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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A map of the world constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy's Geography, engraved by Johannes Schnitzer, 1482.

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.

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Beaten Paths

Brief histories of four famous routes.

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1768 | Calais

Categorical Imperatives

Laurence Sterne taxonomizes travelers.More

8 | Tomis

Exile

Ovid banished from Rome.More

1809 | Plymouth

Birds Warbling Psalms

A Persian envoy arrives in England.More

Charts & Graphs

You Can Take It with You

Famous travelers and their entourages.

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English nurse Florence Nightingale.

American writer Dawn Powell.

Greek geographer and historian Strabo.

Portrait of E.M. Forster by Dora Carrington.

Photograph of British writer and journalist Simon Winchester.

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

Portrait bust of Greek historian Xenophon.

German poet Heinrich Heine.

Xenophon & Heinrich Heine

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