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Kathmandu 69 is a story that straddles the line between autobiography and fiction, based on Éric Chazot's own experience in the late 1960s, when Kathmandu became one of the magnetic poles for young Westerners on the edge of their lives. More...
Continue readingWith Bhoutan, Portrait d'un royaume, Éditions du Pacifique is publishing one of those rare books in which image and text work together to create something more than a simple travel album: a real immersion, slow, contemplative, almost initiatory, in the...
Continue readingMartin Schulz, a landscape photographer with a passion for Iceland, has been exploring this island of fire and ice for many years. «Every nook and cranny,» he says. The photographer has selected 58 exceptional locations to help visitors capture the most beautiful...
Continue readingThis collective work, with a preface by Bruno Podalydès, is part of the Gallimard Voyages - Slow travel collection. It offers a gentle, accessible approach to river travel, with no boating licence required, just a short course at the nautical base. The book explores...
Continue readingLuxury liners, warships, iconic sailing ships: author Dominique Krauskopf takes us into the fascinating world of these iconic ships. Queen Elizabeth II, France, Royal Clipper... So many ships to dream about. Some of the ships that have left their mark on history were...
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Le Royaume des Kapokiers, a documentary comic strip by Troubs, takes us to Ghana, to the heart of Mole National Park, one of the largest in West Africa. Invited by the French NGO Des Éléphants et des Hommes, Troubs and his...
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In 2003, Swiss archaeologists Charles Bonnet and Matthieu Honegger discovered a cache of forty fragments of black granite statues at Doukki Gel in Upper Nubia - now Sudan. The dismembered stones were to reveal...
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Editions Gallimard Voyages has just published "Sur les chemins de Stevenson", a book that invites hikers, backpackers and dreamers to follow the routes and places crossed or evoked by Stevenson in his work. At the...
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En train au Japon is a book by Aimie Eliot, journalist and correspondent in Tokyo, which offers a different way of travelling in the Land of the Rising Sun. With a dense network criss-crossing the country, rail is undoubtedly one of the...
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