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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Map

Beaten Paths

Brief histories of four famous routes.

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1893 | United States

Developing Nation

A travel guide to nineteenth-century America.More

1717 | Adrianople

The Corset Stays

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu visits a Turkish bath.More

c. 65 BC | Sirmio

What Greater Bliss

Catullus homeward bound.More

Charts & Graphs

Perpetual Motion in the U.S.

The approximate per-day number of…

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Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.

Image of Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Bashō.

Swiss writer, philosopher, and television presenter Alain de Botton.

American writer Dawn Powell.

French author Xavier de Maistre.

Sepia toned photograph of Lewis Carroll in a suit, reading a book

Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live.

—Anatole Broyard, 1989

Portrait bust of Greek historian Xenophon.

German poet Heinrich Heine.

Xenophon & Heinrich Heine

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