From tomorrow it will be available in the bookstores of Villanueva de la Vera. The book contains several references to the Vera region and in particular to Villanueva de la Verathe town where I live, where I have written it, and about which several chapters deal.
Where to buy
Also in Amazon.com y www.libros.cc.
Synopsis
The origin of this book is in the logbooks that appeared one day in a trunk in the attic of my house. In its pages, I found the roadmaps loaded with anecdotes and memories, some from the distant past and others from a few years ago. In addition, there are episodes that have been written recently, some practically before yesterday. They are all experiences that I want to share, blending the distant and exotic reality with the closest and most everyday: the South American jungles and the Extremaduran pasture, equatorial Africa and the peaks of Gredos, the Andes, Sierra Nevada…
Through these chapters, you will travel to suburbs where extreme poverty prevails, see gleaming skyscrapers from another galaxy and witness how crises leave people in the gutter. Although you will also cross the ocean on tourist cruises and alternate with oil sheikhs, guerrillas, brave bishops or fierce landless indigenous people… You will attend massacres, fires, weddings and parties, until you land with a smile of peace in two antagonistic interlocks that , however, today they balance my existence: the corridors and rooms of the hospitals and the leafy forests and gorges of La Vera in Extremadura.
Pablo Alcalde Subias (Author)
Pablo Alcalde Subias (Madrid, 1961) soon knew that he would make the trip his life. When he was barely sixteen years old, he set out to explore the Alpujarras on foot, following in the footsteps of Gerald Brenan.
Later, unusual motorcycle routes would come through Latin America and Africa, where the passion for adventure and the breaking of borders would allow him to conquer his own view of the world.
He studied Geography and History at the Autonomous University of Madrid and, for more than fifteen years, has been working on the scenes of the main humanitarian crises.
In the Congo, Colombia, Palestine or Rwanda, he discovered the devastation of war, the injustice of hunger and the helplessness of refugees. But, above all, he found that the journey, as Pessoa said, is the traveler.
