...Travelers ...

... Explains the work that Rosemarie and Vincent did for the freedom movement—traveling to various towns to speak with local leaders and influential people to try to open their minds to the cause. She tells of one particular experience with a local plantation owner who was fascinated to meet them...

...Food and Travel ...

...Travel and Transmission ...

...Why We Travel Travel is an essential feature in human history. Our earliest narratives present characters in search of themselves and their place in the world. Travel is, in fact, one of our most powerful tools for rediscovering the trials and grandeur of myth. This chapter considers the role...

...How We Travel Leisure is a serious topic in the history of thought, connected intimately with the search for a meaningful life. The relationship between work and leisure today is more complex than ever. Though leisure is certainly not a concept exclusive to the world of travel and tourism...

... The history of photography is deeply entwined with the history of travel. Modern photography has been pushed forward by the photographer’s urge for motion: to move freely and to capture movement on film. Tourists take a camera with them. Often the camera is the reason why they travel: to take...

..., and massive boulders ground celebrated symbols of modern mobility and progress, the car and the airplane. Often substrate replaces Durham as sculptor, assuming powers to act, ally, and narrate. As stones accumulate in the wake of the artist’s global travels, they conjure pre- and postcontact cairns...