- Title:
- Hills that burn, Fire lakes (New travels in Africa).
- Author:
- Javier Reverte.
- Sentence:
- "There is nothing that excites the soul more than the preparations for a great trip".
- Critical Vap:
- Javier Reverte had determined not to return to writing about Africa after its successful trilogy of African books and his excellent biography of Pedro Páez. Your readers will appreciate this effort has not met and has succumbed, inevitably, Evil in Africa. The result is a new route, in this case Kenya and Tanzania, two peculiarities: the author goes on foot much of that journey and, Unlike previous experiences, traveling with.
- If the novel is, as pointed Stendhal, a mirror along the way, Reverte's stories look splendid at ground, between sweating, Dust devils, warm beer, camels laden with baggage and a lot of camaraderie. Write back on Africa has returned to the author (as recognized in a magnificent prologue) smells and pleasures of travel and its greatest virtue, largely credited, is to get us, Readers, participate with him in that communion with the soul of Africa. We traveled with literary Reverte and the window that opens wide spurs us back to those scenarios that many readers have known of the hand of his work. Because his books are reread in the field with greater pleasure if possible. Its, also, great guidebooks.
- Some think that the company has subtracted traveler experiences. Not so. The proximity to local people does not suffer and some dialogues are memorable. On board the Liemba, the historic freighter that sailed the waters of Tanganyika, another old dream fulfilled, Reverte writes some of his best pages African, happy in the inevitable discomfort. The crush on the old boat is instantaneous. The master of travel writing, which adorns his chronicle with snippets of the history of African exploration, from the golden age of the white hunters and the look of film to the mainland- pay off another of his outstanding accounts Chitambo (Zambia), which pays tribute to David Livingstone in the place where his heart is buried. The excitement is palpable way the town that refuses to be forgotten.
- Reverte not want, probably, to write back to Africa. Let us hope that, again, does not fulfill that purpose.
«Europe Lowcost», Miquel Silvestre
Sentence: "Europe: too close and too cheap to miss it "
