Recommended Books

Vespa in Rome to Saigon (Giorgio Bettinelli)
Seven months riding a Vespa from Italy to Vietnam. A journey that is born from a dream and then spread to Singapore, mile upon mile, through Asia via Istanbul and Tehran, the desert of Baluchistan and Calcutta, Rangoon and Hanoi. An entire continent and hundreds of meetings that have deleted the word loneliness from a trip undertaken solo.

IS EAST (Paul Rumiz)
Appointment to the east and soon most people naturally think of China, Japan and more distant destinations of Southeast Asia and yet we forget that in Europe there is much unknown east and even forgotten to most. Paul Rumiz, American narrabondo This guideline has wandered far and wide by train, by bicycle with his son, even on a barge to follow the Danube along the route of despair and war in the troubled Balkans, nostalgia of the old Hapsburg in Hungary, to the foothills east of Istanbul and those of resignation in Ukraine. In his travels made without haste and cadenced by loneliness and a notebook among the many characters encountered and the landscapes and flavors described here is emerging portrait of a world of nations and cultures that we forget once again belong to the rich European heritage and our history.

 I Dreamed of Africa (Kuki Gallmann)
As a child the Venetian Kuki Gallman dreamed of Africa. At 25, after the divorce and a terrible accident, he decided to settle in Kenya with her second husband, Paul. It 'a period of continuing discoveries and wonders, but happiness is overshadowed by the death of Paul and later the teenage son Emanuele. Kuki is left alone with her daughter and Sveva 90000th acres of African land to look after. In memory of her husband and son, founded the Gallman Memorial Foundation, an organization that studies new methods for the preservation of the beautiful African nature.

Brum Brum (Giorgio Bettinelli)
Between 1994 and 1995, Giorgio Bettinelli begins its journey from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego and between 1995 and 1996 on a Vespa through the 52,000 kilometers separating Melbourne from Cape Town. After the thousands of events and encounters of the first stage, Bettinelli ventures on a journey that lasted over three years from Chile takes him to Tasmania, across the Americas, Siberia, Europe and Africa.

Rhapsody in Black (Giorgio Bettinelli)
20,000 kilometers on a Vespa, six and a half months in a journey of 144,000 miles and three years and eight months from Chile to Tasmania: a journey through Angola, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti, to complete the circumnavigation, which started in Morocco, a continent where injustice, vulnerability and tragedy are the nth power, Babel, where a twelve year old boys trained guerrillas have already killed and drunk the blood of enemies where corruption and dishonesty are virtues to survive.

IN THE DISTANT LANDS (Walter Bonatti)
Walter Bonatti is one of the most illustrious sons and legendary world of mountaineering. His humility and his wisdom in contrast with the arrogance of the more modern el'antipatia Reinhold Messner. In the mid-sixties, Bonatti, now at the height of his brilliant career as a climber, he devoted himself to other firms of equal thickness adventurous explore regions and remote corners of our planet. The book contains his solitary adventures that brought him into the bowels of volcanoes, including the glaciers of Antarctica, balancing the highest waterfall in the world and other incredible scanari of unparalleled natural beauty. Bonatti remains an extraordinary figure who can understand in full, with simplicity and understanding the harmony between man and nature in the course of his adventurous wanderings.

China on a Vespa (Giorgio Bettinelli)
After four long voyages on a Vespa through 134 countries, after more than 250,000 miles in the saddle to its two wheels in 2004 Giorgio Bettinelli decides to start a new life in China. Buy a house on the left bank of the Mekong, is getting married. Sounds like the start of a season of more sedentary life, or at least calmer. But the demon of the movement is again lurking. The fifth trip begins in May 2006. This time it is traveling to one country only, but will touch every thirty geographical realities that make up the vast Chinese mosaic: an All China tour on two wheels in which ironically, with affability, with notes on time, Bettinelli is to immerse the reader in big question represented by China today. The tiny villages of the province to the immense shipyards citizens, from bumpy road to the very modern motorways, from the deserts to the endless shopping malls West. Are eighteen months, 39,000 kilometers, to meet new and rich peasants, bureaucrats and beautiful women, young and old, to hear something of the infinite flavors, colors, sounds and silences that the cadence of everyday life in the territories of the Celestial Empire . To know what's really inside the new miracle of China.

The big dream (Matteo Pennacchi)
"The big dream" of Matthew Pennacchi was to go around the world. It's done. In an agile and entertaining travelogue Pennacchi tells his race against time, the bet with himself and so, on the street with makeshift equipment, in trucks, trains and ships, attreverso continents, from Moscow to Beijing , from Beijing to Seoul, Korea in America and again in Italy ...

Chronicle of a dream that many have but few can realize, "The big dream. Around the world without a penny in my pocket "(editions Piemme) can help you find the right incentives to drop everything and run away, even if you do not have large capital ...

EBONY (Ryszard Kapuscinski)
This book is not about Africa, but some people who live there and there I met, the time we spent together. Africa is a continent too large to be able to describe. It 'an ocean, a planet in itself, a rich and varied universe. And 'only to simplify and sheer convenience that we call Africa. Apart from its geographical name, in fact Africa does not exist.

IN INDIA (William Dalrymple)
Enthusiastic traveler and keen observer in 36 years, the Englishman William Dalrymple is already considered the greatest exponent of the new travel writing English. In his book, Dalrymple recounts in detail the India, his second home: his intricate domestic policy failures, unresolved disputes with Pakistan, and interviews with party leaders and people of culture, the new economic miracles related to information technology and more. A visit to Pakistan and the Reunion islands complete kaleidoscopic portrait of this incredible land. All seasoned with so much passion for the story, humor and no little courage to spare. Dedicated to those who love India and those who want to understand it.
 
GO TO THE HEAD (Sergio Ramazzotti)
From Algiers to Cape Town! Diary of a beautiful and profound long journey through Africa 10 thousand kilometers has been completed on all types of transportation: the train on foot, by taxi to any kind of bus or minibus of the most dilapidated. Chronicle of a rich experience of unprecedented excitement and many human tragedies told by a talented cast journalist who has the virtue to make us sharers in the middle between the lines of his many adventures and mishaps encountered in his dramatic journey. Reading to understand the myriad dramas of the most wretched and most of the continents.
 
BOAT CLEAN - SEA AFRICA (Elisabetta Eordegh-Carlo Auriemma)
A man, a woman, a sailboat. A route from the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, in search of islands, people and places unknown. The Red Sea with the hunters of sharks, the remote encampments of the nomads of the desert. Then the island of Socotra, which nobody knows and that was a base of pirates, the atolls of the Chagos, the Maldives villages inaccessible to tourists; the dangerous coast of East Africa. A journey lived by the day, out of any route, merely following the instinct and the desire for adventure, in search of the last hidden corners of our planet.

Silk and poisons stories from Central Asia (Duilio Giammaria)
What is hidden in the Asian steppe on the east coast of the Caspian Sea and Aral Sea? Timely investigation and intelligent, attentive to the horrors and a trip to the poetry of one of the most mysterious and fascinating in Central Asia.