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Category Archives: Travel

Flying Everest: The Goddess Mother of the World
Richard Halliburton / Travel

Flying Everest: The Goddess Mother of the World

Posted on June 18, 2012 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

Circumnavigating the globe in a biplane, Richard Halliburton took the first aerial photograph of Mount Everest. Continue reading →

Travels in Search of the Soul of America
Malise Ruthven / Travel

Travels in Search of the Soul of America

Posted on May 28, 2012 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

Travelling in a battered camping van, Malise Ruthven set out across America in search of the manifestations of its religious spirit.  Continue reading →

Have Yourself a Henry James Christmas
Henry James / Travel

Have Yourself a Henry James Christmas

Posted on December 19, 2011 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

Henry James left America for England in 1876 and stayed for the next three decades. Here, taken from his travel memoir English Hours, James describes a late-19th century Christmas spent in the North of England. Continue reading →

English Traits and the British Press
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Travel

English Traits and the British Press

Posted on December 13, 2011 by theibtaurisblog • Leave a comment

Ralph Waldo Emerson visited England twice. The first unpublished in 1833, the second as a celebrated essayist in 1847. Here, from English Traits, Emerson gives his two-cents on The Times’ influence in Victorian society. Continue reading →

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