A Look at the Portuguese World

 

h facebook h twitter h pinterest

Personal Planisphere

Written by 

In December 2002 Gonçalo Cadilhe begins a trip around the world without air travel that will last 19 months, which will cover 38 countries.

Always I enjoyed reading travel chronicles, because they carry me to other cultures and other ways of interpreting the world, through the eyes of the very personal chronicler. When Gonçalo Cadilhe initiated this tour thru the globe one aspect that caught the attention in his trip published by the weekly Expresso, was the author's purposeful never show his face along this audacious adventure and that was unusual because not being "contaminated" in some way by his real image little by little we discovered the traveler's personality throughout the various texts. I must confess that the mystery keep in part my faithfulness to that weekly reading. At the end of the trip when I am finally confronted with the identity of the writer was pleasantly surprised, the idea that I had created was quite another, my imagination had "painted" the image of a Latino man, older, short stature, massive, of glasses with stiff beard and curly hair, only missing almost the flap on the left eye and a wooden leg!
Another aspect that I enjoy a lot in the texts were the means of transport used, as was the case of the merchant vessels and other's alike, at the time I could not help wondering how good it is to be male in certain situations, since a solitary adventurer woman to lead out an adventure of the same nature would have to disguise herself as a man, or at least have a gun at all times. But none of these aspects pointed out withdraw the merit of the chronic describing the idiosyncrasies of the various peoples with whom he contacted and his peculiar way of looking at these new worlds. If you still do not know the work of Gonçalo Cadilhe I suggest you begin reading with this book first and then depart for a great imaginary adventure through the remaining publications. Have a nice reading.

Leave a comment

Make sure you enter the (*) required information where indicated. HTML code is not allowed.

FaLang translation system by Faboba

Podcast

 

 

 

 

Eventos