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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Beaten Paths

Brief histories of four famous routes.

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1768 | Calais

Categorical Imperatives

Laurence Sterne taxonomizes travelers.More

1893 | United States

Developing Nation

A travel guide to nineteenth-century America.More

c. 1925 | Lisbon

Alpha and Omega

For Fernando Pessoa, travel is the traveler.More

Charts & Graphs

You Can Take It with You

Famous travelers and their entourages.

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Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.

English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Image of Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Bashō.

Portrait of E.M. Forster by Dora Carrington.

German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Black and white photograph of Ryszard Kapuściński holding a book.

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

The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.

—Juvenal, c. 125

Xenophon & Heinrich Heine

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