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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The Travelling Companions, by Augustus Egg, 1862.

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?

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Map

Beaten Paths

Brief histories of four famous routes.

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1893 | United States

Developing Nation

A travel guide to nineteenth-century America.More

1902 | Congo River

Charmed by a Snake

Joseph Conrad maps his future.More

1889 | London

Safe Conduct

Hints to lady travelers.More

Charts & Graphs

Perpetual Motion in the U.S.

The approximate per-day number of…

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Sepia toned photograph of Lewis Carroll in a suit, reading a book

British writer Bruce Chatwin.

English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Portrait bust of presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey Homer.

Painted portrait of former American first lady Abigail Adams.

Black and white image of Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca the Younger.

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

Image of Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Bashō.

Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay here and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”

—Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1989

Charles Baudelaire & W.H. Auden

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