Travel Diary
2000

     

More than 300 quotations taken from novels, poems, essays, articles, travel journals, accompanied by hundreds of images (maps, period reproductions, pictures)

A mix of suggestions and information concerning travelling inserted in different sections: "Travel Movies", including 235 films; " Travel Strips", with some excerpts from Corto Maltese and an interview to Hugo Pratt on the South Seas; long conversations with the skipper Giovanni Soldini ("An interview on travelling"), the photographer Roberto Koch ("Travel Photography") and the anthropologist Duccio Canestrini ("Indigenous Peoples"); events connected with the changing of Millennium; hundreds of events all over the world (from the Hindu festival to the migration of whales); a short story taken from the travel journal "Cuban Melody" by the French writer Erik Orsenna; and then the main geographical and tourist sites on Internet, typical recipes from some regions of the world, but also the principles of sustainable tourism and a list of useful addresses ranging from embassies and tourist boards to solidarity and protection associations

 
   
       
               
 
"We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time"
Thomas Stearns Eliot, Little Gidding


"See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all"
Socrates


"Dr Livingstone, I presume?"
Henry Morton Stanley