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Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesnt travel require us to leave the house And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explored and experienced a different place or time without ever leaving her seat. No passport, no currency, no security screening requiredthe luxury of armchair travel is accessible to us all. In Traveling in Place, Bernd Stiegler celebrates this convenient, magical means of transport in all its many forms.Organized into twenty-one legsor short chaptersTraveling in Place begins with a consideration of Xavier de Maistres 1794 Voyage autour de ma chambre, an account of the forty-two-day journey around his room Maistre undertook as a way to entertain himself while under house arrest.