An authentic account of a motorcycle trip through Africa. A book detailing the reality of the black continent beyond the postcards and luxury safaris. And "One million rocks" chewing desert dust, they suffer the corrupt, sometimes, African bureaucracy and finished the night drinking with the strange bedfellows who always invents the way.

The sneakers with Jesse Owen humbled Hitler; revive the basketball final in Los Angeles 84; Eric Moussambani bathing suit ... All exciting sports history, from classical Greece, is in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca begins a tortuous journey from the Brazilian jungle to help a Spanish group isolated in the current capital of Paraguay, Assumption. Find a solution to the Rio de la Plata, but runs into one of the most solemn wonders of nature, Iguazu Falls

At a glance, first thing that strikes is that the Barkhor kora is, while spiritual journey, a succession of street stalls, something like "golden mile" of Lhasa. A few feet of the pilgrims who wear their rosaries, of the monks who kneel extending his arms on the bare ground, merchants trading with tourists the price of souvenirs.