The Way of the World
by Nicolas Bouvier
It’s about a journey in the 1950s from Belgrade to India. These friends try to go to India in a tiny battered Fiat and it takes them several years, and it probably describes the attraction of travel better than any book I’ve ever read.
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“Bouvier never wrote another book comparable to this one. I loved it for its humanity, for its footloose feeling.” Read more...
Colin Thubron, Travel Writer
“These friends try to go to India in a tiny battered Fiat and it takes them several years, it probably describes the attraction of travel better than any book I’ve ever read.” Read more...
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