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Voices In Time

1768 | Calais

Categorical Imperatives

Laurence Sterne taxonomizes travelers.More

Voices In Time

1854 | Mississippi

Hotel Rooms

Frederick Law Olmsted travels through the back country.More

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1842 | Liverpool

Steerage Class

Charles Dickens crosses the Atlantic.More

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1493 | Lisbon

Report to the Investors

Christopher Columbus recounts his New World adventures.More

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c. 65 BC | Sirmio

What Greater Bliss

Catullus homeward bound.More

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1544 | Atlantic Ocean

In the Hands of God

A Spanish friar suffers at sea.More

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c. 1174 BC | Ithaca

Not Too Late to Seek a Newer World

Tennyson on Ulysses’ yearning to explore.More

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1541 | New Mexico

Laboring in Vain

The search for cities of gold.More

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1892 | Persia

Among Nomads

Gertrude Bell goes off the beaten path.More

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1916 | Antarctica

Ernest Shackleton’s War Is Over

The end of another Antarctic journey.More

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1095 | Clermont

Crusade

The Pope issues a call to arms.More

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1586 | Saqqara

Souvenir

Letter from an English mummy smuggler.More

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c. 63 | Rome

Hither and Yon

Seneca advises that you change your soul not your climate.More

Voices In Time

1865 | Rabbit Hole

The Long Way Down

Alice keeps falling and falling and falling...More

Voices In Time

1784 | Auteuil

Where Vice Is Suffered to Walk at Large

Abigail Adams’ notes on France.More

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1862 | Concord

The Art of Walking

Henry David Thoreau contemplates the spirit of sauntering.More

Voices In Time

8 | Tomis

Exile

Ovid banished from Rome.More

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1902 | Congo River

Charmed by a Snake

Joseph Conrad maps his future.More

Voices In Time

c. 1805 | North America

Lewis and Clark Go West

“Ocian in view! O! the joy.”More

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1883 | Hannibal

Homecoming

Mark Twain returns to his roots.More

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c. 1925 | Lisbon

Alpha and Omega

For Fernando Pessoa, travel is the traveler.More

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1809 | Plymouth

Birds Warbling Psalms

A Persian envoy arrives in England.More

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1851 | New York City

Before the Mast

Herman Melville takes to the sea.More

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1846 | Oregon Trail

Rough Crossing

A pioneer woman heads west.More

Voices In Time

1336 | Mount Ventoux

The Road Less Traveled

Petrarch just wants to enjoy the view.More

Voices In Time

1717 | Adrianople

The Corset Stays

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu visits a Turkish bath.More

Voices In Time

1790 | Turin

Small World

Xavier de Maistre takes a staycation.More

Voices In Time

1777 | Perpignan

Trust No One

Advice for avoiding foreign entanglements.More

Voices In Time

1850 | Cairo

Going into the Sun

Florence Nightingale pays homage to Egypt.More

Voices In Time

1787 | Paris

Stay Home, Young Man

Thomas Jefferson’s travel advice.More

Voices In Time

1893 | United States

Developing Nation

A travel guide to nineteenth-century America.More

Voices In Time

1889 | London

Safe Conduct

Hints to lady travelers.More

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