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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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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1850 | Cairo

Going into the Sun

Florence Nightingale pays homage to Egypt.More

c. 1805 | North America

Lewis and Clark Go West

“Ocian in view! O! the joy.”More

1889 | London

Safe Conduct

Hints to lady travelers.More

Charts & Graphs

The Sun Never Sets

Britons comment on their colonies.

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

Black and white photograph of a young Mark Twain with dark hair.

Photograph of Danish writer Isak Dinesen.

Photograph of American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac.

Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.

Marco Polo

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

Calvin Trillin standing in front of a refrigerator in a black and white photograph

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

—Susan Sontag, 1977

Xenophon & Heinrich Heine

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