Memories of Africa Javier Reverte
The trip is Out of Africa, primarily, a beautiful story, full of magic, which it has the power to excite the traveler and make your experience last forever. A classic that never grow old.
Javier Reverte has kicked five continents, has sailed the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic, has crossed the Arctic from east to west and walked the island of Cape Horn. Amazon has dropped from its source to its mouth, tour the course of the Nile, and embarked on the River Congo on the same route that made Joseph Conrad in the late nineteenth. It has followed the paths literary writers such as Homer, in classical Greece- or Jack London, on the Yukon River- and has been admitted to the vast plains of Africa in search of his childhood dreams. He crossed the lake Victoria, Tanganyka el y el Tana, and approached on foot to the shores of Turkana. And all that and more things told in his travel books.
His travel books: Dream of Africa, Wanderer in Africa, Lost Roads in Africa, Ulysses Heart, The River of Desolation, The River of Light, In Wild Seas, Single ticket, The Travel Adventure. (Next May will be released a new book on travels in Africa: "Hills burning, lake of fire ").
His poems: Traces of stowaway, African Poems.
Her novels: Trilogy Central, Lord Paco, Strawberry Fields Forever, All World Dreams, The Night Arrested, The Medical Ifni, Thy Kingdom Come, The Song of Mbama.
A biography: God, the Devil and Adventure (Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit who came to the sources of the Blue Nile).
29 articles
Venecia: waiting for Aphrodite (three years of VaP.)
They say that the goddess Venus-Aphrodite rose from the waters of the Mediterranean and the Greeks placed his birth in the southern Peloponnese peninsula. I think they were wrong: the goddess was born here, in Venice, and here it is again swallowed the sea when the waters devour this city born to die of a surfeit of beauty.
Japan and the wounds of beauty
Me, Meanwhile ominous, I can think of in Japan, Japan only. And talk about an item on which the newspapers rightly, of course, have not spoken at all in these days: the delicate beauty that holds this country (...).
Of Orange Maputo: arenas in Africa
Spain and Portugal, when they were empire, exported language, culture and customs. And among other things, Bullfighting also. The tracks are still alive in several Latin American countries. But the surprise is that there are other traces, in this case dead, in surprising places. Where imagine? For, eg, in Africa.
Again Africa
I have sworn never to travel to Africa and write a line in my life on it.
But a few days ago I saw a video, Included on this page VaP., from a trip to South Africa, Malawi and Mozambique, and after reading a text of my namesake great Javier Brandoli, the African bug began to itch again. Why not return?
VaP. forward the exclusive new book by Javier Reverte
"Hills burning, Fire lakes" goes on sale tomorrow. VaP. now offers its readers a preview of Africa back to the master of travel writing.
Cong: in Innisfree of "The Quiet Man"
There are books that mark the landscape of a region or a city, As with La Mancha, because of Cervantes, with the Dublin, because of Joyce. And there are places where it has left its mark a film.
Dublin: I love Ireland
Ireland is a country that makes you love it, perhaps, is the most romantic of all countries of the earth. And it shows in his two main passions: literature and music.
The nostalgia of the places we do not know
Over the years one coming true, harm than good, mythology that dream and stepping all places that have awakened the nostalgia of the unknown.
Why prefer the freighters to cruise ships
I traveled twice on cruise ships and the two I have promised not. I do not know if a third time picaré. But today there is a way to cross the oceans in a way resembles that of old. I refer to the merchant.
New Bedford: the pulpit from "Moby Dick"
Today New Bedford and the island of Nantukett are two pretty coastal villages where ships dock no longer balleneros.Y, course, traces are the words of Melville in some places.
Javier Reverte returns to Africa in his new book
Javier Reverte returns to Africa. "Hills burning, Fire lakes (New travels in Africa)", that will be in bookstores in the first half of May, has two new trips to the African continent from the master of travel writing.
Wild flowers on the grave of Selous
I have twice visited the tomb of Selous, in the wooded banks of Beho Beho, an area frequently visited by lions. I like the ritual of visiting the places where the remains of my heroes reference.
The trip, the adventure
What drives us to move when television offers a la carte landscapes from around the world? My answer is very simple: travel driven by the sensuality and the desire for adventure.
Tras la estela de Saint-Exupéry
A few years ago, still in the spirit and psyche remains disrupted by the hell that he had contracted malaria in Brazil two years earlier, I decided to embark on a journey to the coastal desert of southern Morocco, Atlantic shores ranging from Agadir to Tarfaya, the old Cape Juby, where he would be stopping, in their night flights, the plane-mail that pilot and writer who was Antonie de Saint-Exupéry.
Africa and childhood dreams
Who has not dreamed of in childhood to be an explorer and with practicing the profession of white hunter? At least, in my generation was common, when kids played in organizing expeditions of exploration and hunting items in search of big game, usually, course, in an imaginary Africa that we dreamed about desolate fields Navalcarnero, the place where I spent my summers.
American
"A couple of weeks ago I published in these pages an article about deep America and my travels through the United States and one of the kind readers of VaP commented with surprise and a certain bad humor: “¿América? But if you only speak of the United States!” (...) The issue has a funny story, "more than meets the eye".
Winds of youth in Middle America
America is so surprising and fascinating. It looks like all the issues we have elaborated on it and, however, over and over again just for breaking.
Digital meeting with Javier Reverte at «elmundo.es»
Following the recent publication of his new travel book, "In the wild seas. A trip to the Arctic ", the writer Javier Reverte digital participate in a meeting with readers on Tuesday www.elmundo.es, 3 May, to 18:00 hours.
Interview: Ithaca
Since last 8 April is in the library's new book, Javier Reverte, "In the wild seas. A trip to the Arctic ". Viajesalpasado.com readers have had the opportunity to submit questions to the master of travel writing. This online interview is the answer to their concerns.
Read a preview of the new book by Javier Reverte
"In the wild seas. A trip to the Arctic ", the anticipated new travel book writer Javier Reverte, is already in bookstores starting next Friday. Open Mouth, VOD offers an exclusive chapter in the new master work of travel literature.
“Ithaca, the homeland of writers »
Imagine a place where there is only sun, blue sea, song of cicadas in summer, some vineyards and a restaurant, Tsiribis, where my friend Dimitris, owner, invites any Spanish it reaches a glass of wine and, dusk, if you like him, recites in the beginning of classical Greek Odyssey.
The refuge of the Mediterranean
February is a strange. We're like in November: both are cold months, sometimes wet, rainy, unkind, no parties that rejoice. Of course we speak of our hemisphere. However, If the memory does not betray me, I think one month is February not too kind to many of the territories of southern Ecuador, because it brings endless rain and heat of oppression.
Aran Islands: literature hostile land
There is a "pub" in Galway, city of the west coast of Southern Ireland, on whose door a poster announcing: "Last place where a beer before Boston (U.S.)”. Of course I took a pint to celebrate the ingenuity of the owner. And of course, also knowing that the statement was not true.
