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On house arrest, Xavier de Maistre took a journey around his room where he discovered there was much to wonder at.
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In 1790, Xavier de Maistre was imprisoned in his house for six weeks, and he took to travel writing about his bedroom. Is this the new coronavirus travel writing?
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Travel and philosophy have enjoyed a quiet love affair for centuries.
As Mark Twain once said, ‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.’
Jake Simonds-Malamud
Globalism has made it easier than ever to visit faraway places – and easier to never really leave home while you're there.
Albert Eckhout
An adventurer who gave us the first account by an Englishman of early colonial Brazil.