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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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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Map

Beaten Paths

Brief histories of four famous routes.

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c. 1925 | Lisbon

Alpha and Omega

For Fernando Pessoa, travel is the traveler.More

1787 | Paris

Stay Home, Young Man

Thomas Jefferson’s travel advice.More

1777 | Perpignan

Trust No One

Advice for avoiding foreign entanglements.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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Black and white image of American writer Herman Melville.

Painted portrait of Italian navigator Christopher Columbus.

American pioneer colonist Tabitha Brown.

Black and white image of Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca the Younger.

American writer Dawn Powell.

Greek geographer and historian Strabo.

Painted portrait of former American first lady Abigail Adams.

Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980

Photograph of Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire & W.H. Auden

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Lapham’sDaily

Roundtable

Lapham’s Quarterly Is on Hiatus

By Lapham’s Quarterly

But the American Agora Foundation is already planning for the future. More

The Colosseum, attributed to Robert Eaton, c. 1855.

DÉjÀ Vu

Monumental Mistakes

2023:

Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.

c. 1850:

Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.

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Terracotta funerary plaque, Greek, Attic, c. 520 BC.

The World in Time

Robert D. Kaplan

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power. More

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