On the death of Javier Reverte
Until his last day, has been faithful to his unwavering commitment to pursue his dreams. A hard-earned task that defines you more than any other
Javier Reverte
24 articles
innocence, essence of travel
"Se buscan hombres para viaje peligroso. Meager salary. Extreme cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Return is not guaranteed. Honor y reconocimiento en caso de éxito".
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 (...).
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.
Soon… Travel in the Past
Are 10 days to see the new viajesalpasado. More video, more authors, more stories, more trips. Do not miss the spectacular home video (bottom of the page).
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.
American
"Hace un par de semanas publicaba en estas páginas un artículo sobre la América profunda y mis viajes por los Estados Unidos y uno de los amables lectores de VaP comentaba con extrañeza y cierto malhumor: “¿América? But if you only speak of the United States!” (...) The issue has a funny story, más de lo que parece a simple vista".
VOD Sweepstakes: The five winners will receive a new book by Javier Reverte spent
VOD has drawn among readers who sent a question to the writer Javier Reverte interview published on our website dedicated five copies of his latest book, "En mares salvajes. Un viaje al Ártico", already in the hands of the lucky ones. ¡Enhorabuena!
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, "En mares salvajes. Un viaje al Ártico", 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.
The ice of "In wild seas"
«Everything was a hoax. The land was barren, hunting and fishing scarce, there were no homes and…
Read a preview of the new book by Javier Reverte
"En mares salvajes. Un viaje al Ártico", 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: Ulysses Island quarrelsome
«The homeland of every travel writer can be none other than Ithaca, where the best of captains…
“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.
David Livingstone: the "roaring smoke" or "mosi oa tunya"
La Piscina del Diablo en "Mosi oa Tunya" is one of the trails that follow David Livingstone in Zambia. We talk about the mighty Victoria Falls and more than a hundred meter fall and nearly two miles long. The pious Livingstone was the first European to set foot on this fascinating place. A tale trail Livingstone Zambia.
The protagonists of the revolution
The inside story, Unamuno would say, converted in History with a capital. The challenge of a people that faces…
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.
In wild seas: the new travel book by Javier Reverte
As, occasionally, question any reader of this "web" on the issue, say that, for next April, I have a new book in bookstores traveler, to which I called "In wild seas (a trip to the Arctic)”.
The fucking "evil of Africa"
Back to Africa. Maybe back to Africa unless all imaginable Africas. In my Africa, on your skin, There are bars in which fuses look, linen napkin restaurants and painted lines on roads. All that awaits me back in Cape Town: European complexion, however, observed a black soul.
Tanganyika and the Queen of Africa
A little over a year since last time I traveled to Black Africa. And for a few days, I sailed on an old ferry, the "Liemba", on the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika, one of the largest in Africa; lake area full of stories and legends ...
"The literary shores of the Mississippi"
The Mississippi is a river that goes a long way. Uninformed people say that America has no history, as if history were an issue related to old age and time. Instead, I see history in relation to the intensity of life.
History and McDonald's
Last week I wrote about battlefields and, a little side, reffering me to the field of Gettysburg, wandering through which I walked a cold morning in March this year. The fierce fighting on 1 the 3 July 1863 on the outskirts of this small town in Pennsylvania ...
The "poetry" of the battlefields
Graham Greene wrote that "over time, even the battlefields seem poetic places ". I've seen a few in the course of my travels, for historical inquiries inevitably push me towards them.
