travel books

	Buona notte signor Lenin... Tiziano Terzani In August 1991 Terzani is along the Amur River, in Siberia, when he hears about the attempt against Gorbacev, just happened in Moscow. He decides to start the trip that will take him in two months, across Siberia, Central Asia and Caucasus, till the capital. An amazing experience, remembered in his notes, reflections and in the pictures that compose this book: a testimony on line of a very important event of our history, a gallery of different characters and people, a panorama of legendary cities, of unknown places, of vestige of the past and of overbearing signals of the new that advances. A journey and a book that gives us the picture of the final decline of the Soviet Empire.
Pelle di leopardo Tiziano Terzani Terzani arrived in Vietnam in 1972. He saw and lived the cruelty og those days and gave his own experience of witness of war at the diary that the following year was published with the title of: "Pelle di leopardo". He came back to Vietnam in 1975 and he was one of the fewer Western journalists witnesses of the liberation of Saigon. In "Giai Phong!", published in 1976, reported the diplomatic and war back stages of those hard months. The two books, gathered in one, describe not only the battles of a war who became the myth for a generation, but also the suffering of the civilian people and their moral and material change after the end of the encounters.
	La porta proibita Tiziano Terzani In February 1984 Tiziano Terzani has been arrested in Beijing, searched, interrogated and, inf the end, expelled from the Country. He has lived there for four years with his family, trying to feel "Chinese": he sent his son to the local school, reached places unknown for the tourists, he discovered a different China. Rich of news and notes, considerations and impressions, this book is at the same time a reportage, a journey diary, an essay of contemporary sinology and the passionate novel of an human adventure.
Avventure in Africa Gianni Celati This book reminds me of the first part of “Caro diario” by Nanni Moretti. There a man was strolling around a desert Rome by Vespa, and this gave the emotion of seeing the images of the roads, the houses, the everyday local silence, as we would hear and see everything for the first time. In "Avventure in Africa" there is the same feeling of seeing the mages of life, as a first glance in the morning that ransoms all he experiences of a journey, the imagined and the lived one too. As the one by Nanni Moretti, this is a diary as well, that becomes a tale, often funny, and with a faithful study of the life of the tourists. It seems as an invisible telecamera follows the man who is writing along the way across Mali, Senegal and Mauritania, just to make us watch the world with love.
	Un indovino mi disse Tiziano Terzani In 1976 a Chinese fortune teller warns Tiziano Terzani, correspondent of the "Spiegel" from Asia: "Beware. In 1993 you will risk to die. During that year you must never fly ". In 1992 Terzani feels tired, doubtful about the sense of his work. He remembers that prophecy and he reads it as a chance to watch the world with different eyes. he decides not to take planes for one year, without renouncing at his job. The result of that experience is a book that is an adventure novel, autobiography, journey tale and reportage at the same time.
Quella volta che in viaggio... Luciano Del Sette Collection of anecdotes, memories, micro-tales and impressions of a tourist after twenty-five years of trips.
	In Asia Tiziano Terzani Tiziano Terzani and Asia, a story long as a life. But is Terzani telling us about Asia or Asia is telling us about Terzani? It's hard to say, because the bond that this man presses with it is very strong since 1965. Reading this book we live again all the most important events happened in this mysterious continent in the last 30 years, you about the great ideals that formed it and all her main characters, until you give a glance about her future. At the same time Terzani invites us to pay attention at the other voice, the one of the real Orient, lived everyday, between the women and the men, the difficulties, the contrasts, rites, and curiosities...
Ebano Ryszard Kapuscinski Ryszard Kapuscinski let himself down in the African Continent and make him flood, avoiding the classical steps and stereotypes. He goes to live in the houses of the poorest sub-urbs, full of cockroaches and invaded by the hot, he gets ill for the brain fever; risks to be killed by a warrior. Kapuscinski never looses the smart glance of the reporter.

Photographic Archive
Merida, MEXICO	2007

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