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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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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Map

Beaten Paths

Brief histories of four famous routes.

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1777 | Perpignan

Trust No One

Advice for avoiding foreign entanglements.More

1851 | New York City

Before the Mast

Herman Melville takes to the sea.More

1846 | Oregon Trail

Rough Crossing

A pioneer woman heads west.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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Photograph of English novelist Charles Dickens.

Painting of a gray-haired man looking to the left

Photograph of Marcel Proust looking pensive.

Portrait bust of presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey Homer.

Black and white photograph of Ryszard Kapuściński holding a book.

Roman poet Catullus.

German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

—Brigitte Bardot, 1989

American writer Dawn Powell.

Harriet Beecher Stowe & Dawn Powell

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