1. John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) (Oxford, 1926), illustrated.
2. Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (1846) (London, 1924), 2 vols.
3. ‘The Pilgrim’s Hymn’, The English Hymnal (Oxford, 1906), no. 402.
4. Cwm Rhondda, ‘Prayer for strength for the journey through the world’s wilderness’, original Welsh words (1762) by William Williams ‘Pantycelyn’ (1717–91), English translation (1771) by Peter Williams, melody (1907) by John Hughes. www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cwm_Rhondda.
5. Ibid. Numerous versions and translations exist, but it is not true that the original was composed in English.
6. ‘There’s a long, long trail’ (1914), American: lyrics by S. King, music by ‘Zo’ Elliot.
7. William Hazlitt, ‘On Going a Journey’ (1822), in Selected Essays (London, 1930).
8. William Blake, ‘Ah! Sun-flower’, from Songs of Experience (1794).
9. William Cobbett, Rural Rides (London, 1912), vol. 1, pp. 34–5. Entry for 18 November 1821.
10. Fictional travel: Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1870), Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (1912), H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines (1885), H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895).
11. Best travel books, www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/artsandculture/travelbooks/4932008/The-20-best-travel-books-of-all-time.html (16 February 2015).
12. J. W. von Goethe, Italienische Reise (1816–17), published in translation as Italian Journey, ed. W. H. Auden (Harmondsworth, 1970).
13. J. W. von Goethe, from Wilhelm Meister, vol. III, part I.
14. Gilbert Highet, Poets in a Landscape (Oxford, 1957).
15. Gilbert Highet, The Classical Tradition (Oxford, 1949).
16. Gilbert Highet, from People, Places and Books (New York, 1953).
17. Joachim du Bellay, Les Regrets, Sonnet XXXI (1558).
18. Homer, The Odyssey, trans. E. V. Rieu, Penguin Classics (Harmondsworth, 1954), p. 25.
19. John Keats, ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ (1816), lines 1–4.
20. George Chapman, The Odyssey (1616), ‘The Invocation’.
21. Virgil, The Aeneid, book I, lines 1–7.
22. Virgil, The Aeneid, trans. W. F. Jackson Knight, Penguin Classics (Harmondsworth, 1956), p. 27.
23. Mark Twain, from The Innocents Abroad (1869).
24. Stewart Green, ‘The Story of the World’s First Alpinist’, Thought.Co (2015), https://thoughtco.com/francesco-petrarch-ascent-of-mont-ventoux-755828 (2015).
25. Petrarch, ‘The Ascent of Mont Ventoux’ (1336), in Epistolae Familiares, Book IV, 1.
26. William Cobbett, Rural Rides (London, 1912), vol. II, p. 156; Arthur Young (1741–1820) was Cobbett’s contemporary, vying with him for published accounts of his extensive travels through the British Isles. His famous tour of France took place in 1787.
27. Ribchester Museum, see www.ribchesterromanmuseum.org.
28. Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms (London, 2012), ch. 2, ‘Alt Clud: The Kingdom of the Rock’.
29. Evelyn Waugh, Edmund Campion (London, 1947).
30. Cobbett, from Rural Rides, op. cit.
31. Edward Gibbon, from Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (London, 1776), ch. 50.
32. William Shakespeare, Sonnet no. 27.
33. Rainer Maria Rilke, ‘A Walk’, translated by Robert Bly.
34. Robert Louis Stevenson, ‘Travel’, in Great Poems, compiled by Kate Miles (Great Bardfield, 2005), pp. 100–102.
35. Charles Baudelaire, ‘Le Voyage’, http:/fleursdumal.org/poem/231 (16 February 2015).
36. Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto XXVI, lines 94–102 trans. Robert Pinsky.
37. Ibid., lines 112–23.
38. O. Sobolev and R. Milner-Gulland, ‘Winter Road: An Analysis’, in R. Reid, ed., Two Hundred Years of Pushkin (Amsterdam, 2004), vol. 3, pp. 125–40.
39. An earlier version of this translation was published in Norman Davies, ‘Adam Mickiewicz and His Times’, in Telling Lives, ed. Alistair Horne (London, 2000), pp. 250–51.
40. Jean Potocki, Voyage dans l’Empire de Maroc (1792), Histoire Primitive des Peuples de la Russie (1802), Voyage au Caucase et en Chine (Paris, 1980), Manuscrit Trouvé à Saragosse (1815). See also The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, trans. Ian Maclean (London, 1996), Nina Terlecka-Taylor, Jan Potocki and his Polish Milieu (Cambridge, 2002).
41. Ryszard Przybylski, Podróż Juliusza Słowackiego na Wschód (Kraków, 1982).
42. Ibid., stanza 50.
43. Jack Cox, Don Davies: ‘An Old International’ (London, 1962).
44. James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915), from The Golden Journey to Samarkand (London, 1913).
45. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from Ulysses (1842), lines 51–70.