Travel as lifestyle and yet intimate quest

"A journey does not need reasons. It does not take long to prove that it is sufficient in itself. we think we will take a trip, but soon it is the journey that makes you, or you defeated."

These few now famous lines became the credo explorers worldwide. To pack up, leave everything behind, from a distant and unknown land without knowing what they will find and how long it will stay there: it was the idea that Nicolas Bouvier and his friend Thierry Vernet had of travel ... in the early 1950s, the two men have wandered for eighteen months between Geneva and Kabul, and shared their journey in a cult book: the Way of the World, published in 1963.

Tonight, for this last show of the season, listen to these writers for whom travel is a state of mind, a way of life now, but also a personal quest, an opportunity to reconcile with yourself .. .

Turkey to Patagonia, through the Libyan desert and even the bowels of the Earth: follow the trail of these adventurers to the pen, which the good word of Pascal, 'could not stand quietly in a room ...