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More
than 200 quotations taken from novels, poems, essays, articles,
travel journals, accompanied by hundreds of images (maps, period
reproductions, pictures).
6 sections dedicated to great travellers from different ages and
cultural backgrounds: Ulysses, with an interview to the scholar
Piero Boitani; Ibn Battuta, with an interview to the Moroccan writer
Tahar Ben Jelloun; James Cook, with an interview to Samson Cook,
his last descendant in Tonga; Paul Gauguin, with an interview to
Gilles Artur, founder of the Gauguin Museum in Tahiti; Sandokan,
a fictitious character by Emilio Salgari, with an interview to the
scholar Ernesto Ferrero; Ernest Hemingway, with an interview to
Gregorio Fuentes, the Cuban “old man” of his famous novel.
An Utility Appendix with essential updated news on different issues:
ranging from Time Zones to associations engaged in the world in
assistance and solidarity activities; from health to some exercises
to do travelling; from useful addresses to events in the world;
from conversion of measures to things to bring; from exchange rates
to international phone codes
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