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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c. 65 BC | Sirmio

What Greater Bliss

Catullus homeward bound.More

c. 1925 | Lisbon

Alpha and Omega

For Fernando Pessoa, travel is the traveler.More

1768 | Calais

Categorical Imperatives

Laurence Sterne taxonomizes travelers.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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Essayist and novelist Pico Iyer.

Portrait bust of Roman poet Virgil.

Photograph of Italian writer Italo Calvino.

German poet Heinrich Heine.

Sculpture bust of Greek historian Herodotus.

Portrait bust of Greek historian Xenophon.

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

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879

Portrait bust of Greek historian Xenophon.

German poet Heinrich Heine.

Xenophon & Heinrich Heine

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