In honor of authors such as William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes […]
Created in 1995, at the UNESCO General Conference, World Book and Copyright Day is celebrated on April 23 to pay homage to books and authors all over the world.
The date was chosen for the day on which several famous authors died, such as William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.
THE Trip to the agenda He selected some books for those who want to fall on the road without leaving the sofa (or traveling literally well accompanied by a book).
Return to the world in 72 days
Publisher
In 1889, the pioneer of investigative journalism Nelie Bly decided to break down the classic “The World Verne” by Júlio Verne returning to the world and made the same screenplay in less time. For this, he took Vapori, triggered the railways and climbed Riquixás to demonstrate that the road is also the place of women.
Among the places visited are England, France, Italy, Egypt, Yemen, Ceylon (current -day Sri Lanka), Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan.
“Cecília Meireles – Travel Chronicles” collection
Global publisher
Box with three books with prose texts on the road, written between 1941 and also well before his death in November 1964.
From the texts of the archives of the poet’s family, some of them without a date or dispersed in newspapers and magazines, “the rich human experience of Cecilia Meireles is revealed in its reflective contact with people and the world”, as described the organizer of the work, Leodegário A. De Azevedo Fili.
Grow
Peditore Peirópolis
Tamara Klink tells the stories of her first solo trip, between Norway and France, in the “Sardinha” sailboat that she purchased, at 24, without the family knew or had time to dissuade her from the idea.
Voyage
José Olympio publisher
After traveling “as crazy cockroaches” from destinations such as Ukraine and Georgia, the writer of Alagoas Graciliano Ramos recorded his experience in this posthumous book of 1954, a year after his death. Recently, the work has won a new edition with Illustrations of Cândido Portinari on the cover and rare photographs by Gracilian during the trip.
The Caldeirão da Velha Chica and other Brazilian stories
Publisher Leaves of Relva Editions
In this type of news to “eat”, the journalist Alexandre Staut meets in short texts the over 40 interviews he made, between 2006 and 2013, while traveling for Brazil, visiting indigenous villages, Quilombola, cities and forests.
Pigalle
Editore Alta Books
The second book by the screenwriter and director André Bushhtsky does not concern “the arrival”, not to mention “being” in the tourist region of Paris who gives work to work. Pigalle, the neighborhood, is the starting point for the 50 chronicles of this work that addresses the most varied themes.
Twilight does not adapt to the world
Patuá Editore
In his debut book, the journalist Eduardo Vessoni, publisher of Trip to the agendaCronache door with curiosity about the experiences of (anti-unit) Mário de Andrade, gathered after a vast search for three years in books, chronicles, letters, photographs and postcards written by the poet.
The border
Âyiné publisher
The Norwegian anthropologist Erika Fatland reports his journey through 14 countries and three separatist republics, trying to understand the influence of Russia on nearby nations, recognized all over the world or not, such as China, Mongolia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, as well as Baltic and Scandinavian countries.
Kon-Tiki shipping
José Olympio publisher
For 101 days, the Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl, accompanied by five other men and a parrot, traveled in a wooden raft to demonstrate its theory that French Polynesia was populated by the peoples of South America.
Until the end of the world
Objective publisher
Paul Theroux brings together his travel chronicles published in six previous works by the author, including “The Great Rail Bazaar”, best seller Since 1975 in which it describes the changes of tracks between Europe and Asia, from chaotic India to annoyances in the Trans -Siberian.
Source: Terra
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