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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A map of the world constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy's Geography, engraved by Johannes Schnitzer, 1482.

A Little Travel Is a Dangerous Thing

By D. Graham Burnett

The first adventurers in the Age of Discovery didn’t just make progress into uncharted waters, they invented the very idea of progress.

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Beaten Paths

Brief histories of four famous routes.

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1916 | Antarctica

Ernest Shackleton’s War Is Over

The end of another Antarctic journey.More

c. 1805 | North America

Lewis and Clark Go West

“Ocian in view! O! the joy.”More

c. 1925 | Lisbon

Alpha and Omega

For Fernando Pessoa, travel is the traveler.More

Charts & Graphs

Danger on the High Seas

Famous maritime disasters.

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British writer Bruce Chatwin.

English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Black and white photograph of a young Mark Twain with dark hair.

Sculpture bust of Greek historian Herodotus.

Mosaic portrait of a bearded man in red holding a book

Engraving of the medieval Arab traveler Ibn Battuta.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.

—William Hazlitt, 1822

Photograph of Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire & W.H. Auden

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