#31 The journey

2012

Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga of science fiction, but for me as a little girl in the 60s, not a slave of TV and the Internet, and lacking in any strong personal experiences, it symbolized for the first time that physical and mental emotion that later became true on the real voyages I’ve been on in my life. A mixture of curiosity and apprehension, expectation and incredulity have let me discover, firstly with my mind, what the word travel represents.

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