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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c. 63 | Rome

Hither and Yon

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

1787 | Paris

Stay Home, Young Man

Thomas Jefferson’s travel advice.More

1851 | New York City

Before the Mast

Herman Melville takes to the sea.More

Charts & Graphs

Carry-on Baggage

Intentional and unintentional cultural transmissions.

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Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.

Black and white photograph of Ryszard Kapuściński holding a book.

Sculpture bust of Greek historian Herodotus.

Mosaic portrait of a bearded man in red holding a book

British author Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

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

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

Portrait of third president of the United States Thomas Jefferson.

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

—Homer, c. 750 BC

American writer Dawn Powell.

Harriet Beecher Stowe & Dawn Powell

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Lapham’sDaily

Roundtable

Lapham’s Quarterly Is on Hiatus

By Lapham’s Quarterly

But the American Agora Foundation is already planning for the future. More

The Colosseum, attributed to Robert Eaton, c. 1855.

DÉjÀ Vu

Monumental Mistakes

2023:

Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.

c. 1850:

Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.

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Terracotta funerary plaque, Greek, Attic, c. 520 BC.

The World in Time

Robert D. Kaplan

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power. More

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