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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1790 | Turin

Small World

Xavier de Maistre takes a staycation.More

c. 1925 | Lisbon

Alpha and Omega

For Fernando Pessoa, travel is the traveler.More

1544 | Atlantic Ocean

In the Hands of God

A Spanish friar suffers at sea.More

Charts & Graphs

Here Come the Young Men

Differences in travel necessities for the Grand Tour of Europe, old and new.

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British writer Laurence Sterne.

Bust of Hesiod

British author Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

Black and white photograph of John Crowley sitting on a porch.

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

Black and white photograph of Ryszard Kapuściński holding a book.

I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.

—Grace Moore, 1944

American writer Dawn Powell.

Harriet Beecher Stowe & Dawn Powell

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