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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c. 63 | Rome

Hither and Yon

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

1850 | Cairo

Going into the Sun

Florence Nightingale pays homage to Egypt.More

1586 | Saqqara

Souvenir

Letter from an English mummy smuggler.More

Charts & Graphs

Perpetual Motion in the U.S.

The approximate per-day number of…

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Portrait bust of Greek historian Xenophon.

Photograph of Marcel Proust looking pensive.

Black and white photograph of John Crowley sitting on a porch.

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

Photograph of British writer and journalist Simon Winchester.

Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.

Photograph of pilot, horse trainer, writer, and adventurer Beryl Markham on horseback.

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

—Fanny Burney, 1782

Portrait bust of Greek historian Xenophon.

German poet Heinrich Heine.

Xenophon & Heinrich Heine

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