Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Enghien-les-Bains
For this first meet and greet of the season, the Enghien media library welcomes the famous travel writer Olivier Weber. He will present to us in particular his “Adventure Lovers’ Dictionary” where “it is a question of thirst for the unknown, of courage, of empathy and of commitment.”
Let us recall that Olivier Weber is a renowned writer: he is the winner for his novels and essays of the Joseph Kessel Prize, the European and Mediterranean Book Prize, the Albert Londres Prize, the Adventure Prize and the Pierre Loti Prize! Great prizes for this 66-year-old adventurer.
Presentation of the “Adventure Lovers’ Dictionary” (press release excerpt)
On the hazardous paths of adventure, we meet explorers, scholars, outlaws, humanitarians, courageous captains, charlatans, all heroes or anti-heroes who have pushed the writer to venture too, to the depths of the Amazon or to the mountains of Asia, to the China Sea or to the Silk Roads, to African savannahs or unknown scrublands. Along the way, the art of escape and the propensity to always push back our horizons are outlined, as if the spirit of adventure intrinsically retained a part of mystery but remained accessible to all. This thrill of adventure, this quest for the “immense unknown” dear to the explorer Richard Burton, we know them for many, dreamers of the confines, runners of meridians, surveyors of the woods or tormented pilgrims, by desire to surpass oneself, taste for risk or need for humanism. With stopovers in improbable ports, bandit coves, islands with or without treasure, lost guerrilla camps, false Eldorados or true Edens, extraordinary adventures or famous failures, in heavy storms or dead calm.
This book, listening to the song of the world, invites us to discover places, myths, and characters that make up the distant or nearby landscapes of adventure. The passionate traveler and adventurer takes us along all his roads and paths, carried by the call of the Great Outdoors, the tension between wandering and home, and always by the desire for freedom.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 at 7 p.m. – Auditorium of the Arts Center 12-16 rue de la Libération Enghien-les-Bains – Free entry upon registration at 01 34 28 42 28, subject to availability.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Enghien-les-Bains
For this first meet and greet of the season, the Enghien media library welcomes the famous travel writer Olivier Weber. He will present to us in particular his “Adventure Lovers’ Dictionary” where “it is a question of thirst for the unknown, of courage, of empathy and of commitment.”
Let us recall that Olivier Weber is a renowned writer: he is the winner for his novels and essays of the Joseph Kessel Prize, the European and Mediterranean Book Prize, the Albert Londres Prize, the Adventure Prize and the Pierre Loti Prize! Great prizes for this 66-year-old adventurer.
Presentation of the “Adventure Lovers’ Dictionary” (press release excerpt)
On the hazardous paths of adventure, we meet explorers, scholars, outlaws, humanitarians, courageous captains, charlatans, all heroes or anti-heroes who have pushed the writer to venture too, to the depths of the Amazon or to the mountains of Asia, to the China Sea or to the Silk Roads, to African savannahs or unknown scrublands. Along the way, the art of escape and the propensity to always push back our horizons are outlined, as if the spirit of adventure intrinsically retained a part of mystery but remained accessible to all. This thrill of adventure, this quest for the “immense unknown” dear to the explorer Richard Burton, we know them for many, dreamers of the confines, runners of meridians, surveyors of the woods or tormented pilgrims, by desire to surpass oneself, taste for risk or need for humanism. With stopovers in improbable ports, bandit coves, islands with or without treasure, lost guerrilla camps, false Eldorados or true Edens, extraordinary adventures or famous failures, in heavy storms or dead calm.
This book, listening to the song of the world, invites us to discover places, myths, and characters that make up the distant or nearby landscapes of adventure. The passionate traveler and adventurer takes us along all his roads and paths, carried by the call of the Great Outdoors, the tension between wandering and home, and always by the desire for freedom.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 at 7 p.m. – Auditorium of the Arts Center 12-16 rue de la Libération Enghien-les-Bains – Free entry upon registration at 01 34 28 42 28, subject to availability.
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