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.

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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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Beaten Paths

Brief histories of four famous routes.

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1544 | Atlantic Ocean

In the Hands of God

A Spanish friar suffers at sea.More

c. 1925 | Lisbon

Alpha and Omega

For Fernando Pessoa, travel is the traveler.More

1916 | Antarctica

Ernest Shackleton’s War Is Over

The end of another Antarctic journey.More

Charts & Graphs

Words to the Wise

Darwin’s father objects to his naturalist voyage.

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Portrait of E.M. Forster by Dora Carrington.

English nurse Florence Nightingale.

Portrait bust of Roman poet Virgil.

Dorothy Parker working at her typewriter.

Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.

British writer Laurence Sterne.

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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