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

1768 | Calais

Categorical Imperatives

Laurence Sterne taxonomizes travelers.More

1790 | Turin

Small World

Xavier de Maistre takes a staycation.More

Charts & Graphs

Souvenirs, Then and Now

Remembrances of trips past.

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German poet Heinrich Heine.

Calvin Trillin standing in front of a refrigerator in a black and white photograph

Bust of Hesiod

Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.

Black and white photograph of American novelist John Steinbeck.

Black and white photograph of Ryszard Kapuściński holding a book.

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640

American writer Dawn Powell.

Harriet Beecher Stowe & Dawn Powell

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