One of the characteristics of long haul travelers is that once they are launched, it is difficult to stop their momentum. Journalist Gary Lawrence therefore leaves for a tour with Fragments from elsewhere II, bringing together the best stories of his travels around the world, in the wake of the first part and Fragments from here, published last year.
After returning on personal sources and motivations of his visits to countries elsewhere, Gary Lawrence fumbles again in his backpack to extirpate green and not ripe from all continents. Here, a pack of cigarettes which earned him the status of cripple in Paris; there, the cat leaves the bag, after having embarked there in Cyprus; not to mention that beer scent, inherited from a hoppy bath in Bavaria …
50 short stories
Again, in 50 short stories appeared in the media here, Gary Lawrence is the fluttering globe after the Cypriot cats, meerkats way to Botswana, the Rwandan gorillas, the Senegalese shores. A quick stop at Stephen King’s in Maine? Or do you prefer the scares of the two-wheeled Death Road in Bolivia? Unless you share the author’s bubbling fascination with volcanoes?
With his very personal style combining bewitching phrasing and love of puns, the tireless backpacker encourages us to read as we travel, haphazardly luck, by pointing a finger at random pages as we would come across a destination randomly designated on a map of the world. .
For reverie or inspiration, Fragments from elsewhere II gives us more than ever the desire to set foot in the stirrup again, knowing that we will not be traveling with a bad horse.
Fragments from elsewhere II
Gary Lawrence
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336 pages