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Every journey is, in its essence, a movement
from a point to another. Geographical, usually, but also interior.
There are countless ways to travel, as many as the feet that drive
them around and the eyes that observe the world. This diary dedicated
to travelling, arrived at its tenth edition, tells some of the endless
ways to mean it
In its pages hundreds of quotations are collected - one for each
author, to ensure variety of historical context and geographical
and cultural origins - fragments (totally renewed every year) from
taken from novels, poems, essays, articles, journals of different
kinds of travellers (from Plato to Bruce Springsteen, from Marco
Polo to Claude Lévi-Strauss, from zen essays to tuareg proverbs),
all of them with the passion (or, more rarely, dislike) for travel,
movement, search, far and near elsewhere, real or fantastic places
Over the years, the agenda has hosted special in depth-analysis
on various topics - from interviews with writers, philosophers,
anthropologists, musicians, photographers (among others: Tahar Ben
Jelloun, Luis Sepulveda, Umberto Galimberti, Paolo Conte, Hugo Pratt,
Ferdinando Scianna) - to useful information - the reporting of hundreds
of events around the world (from Buddhist festivals to savannah
migrations) addresses (embassies, tourist offices, associations)
- and images, from paintings to photos and maps. A mix of different
materials to accompany the reader - day after day - on a one year
long journey |
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