Travel Diary
1999

      

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 15 different sections: a lot of practical advices (ranging from flight to change, from health to climate); hundreds of events all over the world (from the Hindu festival to the migration of whales); a memorandum on how to take travel pictures; an interview to the Chilean writer Luis Sepulveda; a short story taken from the travel journal “Hitchhiking to the Himalaya” by the Indian writer Vikram Seth; 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

  
   
             
       
"Comes over one an absolute necessity to move"
David H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia


"One day, without anyone expecting it, we saw a giant, who was on the shore of the sea, quite naked, and was dancing and leaping, and singing, and whilst singing he put the sand and dust on his head"
Antonio Pigafetta, The First Voyage Round the World


"Travel is a foretaste to hell" Turkestan Proverb