Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Economy of Travel -- Chapter 1. Equestrian Montaigne -- Circulating in Italy: Travel Journal -- Unbridled Leisure: "Of Idleness" -- An Accidental Body -- or, The Paternal Limit: "Of Practice" -- All Roads Lead Back to Rome: "Of Vanity" -- Chapter 2. Cartesian Coordinates -- Finding One's Footing: Second Meditation -- Wanderings in Error: Discourse on Method, Meditations -- Chapter 3. Montesquieu's Grand Tour -- A View from the Top: Journey from Graz to The Hague -- The Occidental Tourist -- or, The Drift of History: The Spirit of the Laws -- Chapter 4. Pedestrian Rousseau -- Pedagogy and the Teleology of Travel: Emile -- Oedipal Returns -- The Law of Succession: Emile and Sophie -- or, the Solitary Ones -- Walking and Writing: Confessions -- The "Fall" of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Second Promenade -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.