A traveler for his entire life, from the carriage ride at sixteen to study in Leipzig to the farewell walk on the Kickelhahn at 82 years old. Goethe traveled extensively, covering forty thousand kilometers on foot or horseback, by carriage or by boat. Absence frees the world-curious; and great purposes drive him forward. What the wanderer perceives becomes poetry for him. More than a hundred locations are gathered in this volume. This encyclopedia of universal wandering serves both as an alphabetical reference work on Goethe's cities, mountains, and countries, and as an autobiographical reading book with accounts of happiness in life and danger in death.