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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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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Beaten Paths

Brief histories of four famous routes.

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1717 | Adrianople

The Corset Stays

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu visits a Turkish bath.More

1790 | Turin

Small World

Xavier de Maistre takes a staycation.More

1902 | Congo River

Charmed by a Snake

Joseph Conrad maps his future.More

Charts & Graphs

Souvenirs, Then and Now

Remembrances of trips past.

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Essayist and novelist Pico Iyer.

British writer Laurence Sterne.

Black and white image of American writer Herman Melville.

Photograph of British writer and journalist Simon Winchester.

American writer Dawn Powell.

Portrait of third president of the United States Thomas Jefferson.

Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797

American writer Dawn Powell.

Harriet Beecher Stowe & Dawn Powell

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