Room travel – a voyage we can all take during times of coronavirus quarantine and lockdown

“They have forbidden me to roam around a city, a mere point in space; but they have left me with the whole universe: immen­sity and eternity are mine to command” – Xavier de Maistre, Voyage autour de ma chambre (1794).In the city of Turin in 1790, de Maistre, a French soldier, was confined to his room for six weeks. He was not in quarantine, but under house arrest for having fought a duel. An adventurous man, who had become one of the first air travellers when he flew, briefly, in the new…

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