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Literature and travel workshop with Reverte

What does traveling mean? Why we travel? How does a writer travel? What are our favorite geographies?... The writer Javier Reverte will talk about all these topics in Mongofre (Menorca) of 10 the 13 next april. Do you wanna hear him?

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28 February, 2014

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 (...).

byJavier Reverte

30 March, 2013

Javier Reverte trips

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.

byJavier Reverte

24 August, 2011

Javier Reverte trips

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.

byJavier Reverte

13 August, 2011

Javier Reverte trips

“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.

byJavier Reverte

8 March, 2011

Javier Reverte trips

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.

byJavier Reverte

8 February, 2011

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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)”.

byJavier Reverte

20 January, 2011

Javier Reverte trips

"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.

byJavier Reverte

22 December, 2010

"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	9,75/10
Tierra de Brujas: When it doesn't rain do the blue veins dry up??	9,70/10
Of the ruins of the empires: Asia's adjustment with European colonialism	9,45/10
“A possible life”: The scar that leaves the memory	9,40/10
"Quijote in the Congo": They were not giants, It was a river	9,25/10
"Pilgrims of beauty": Italy and Greece Bacanal	9,20/10
"Travel with Charley": Raw portrait of the US 60	9,05/10
Winter notes on summer impressions: Dostoevsky in front of the mirror	8,90/10
The city of God: the guts of Rome	8,75/10
On the road: the “American Dream” of the underworld	8,60/10
Strengthen the foundation: Africa raises its voice	8,15/10
My trip to Africa: Churchill takes his rifle	7,50/10
"Mexico. Memories of a traveler ": The cursed book that clears the country	6,25/10
“Bangkok”: the adventures of a westerner among prostitutes, bars, massages and excesses	5,50/10

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