Travel Without Moving
Extracts from Voyagers’ Journal Entries
This Book contains true stories of travels and exploration of the world. Take it and have someone read it to you and you will hear and see all kind of wonderful things and places, from the enchanted basin in Costa Rica cloud forest to the depths of the underwater fields of the Red Sea. Everything as seen by the eyes of the narrator of this Book so that you may put full faith in the truth of all its contents. Marco Polo (1298 circa)
Honorable mention at Premio Marco Bastianelli 2017
Press on The New York Times
Review on 1000words Magazine
BESTIARIE on Punto De Fuga
The Revival of Myths on Contemporary Lynx
Offset print 350 copies, may 2016
Travel Without Moving by Federico Ciamei
Design by Alberto Moreu
Published by Skinnerboox
We set out, in company with Pedro, for the Falls of the Macho, a tremendous cataract leaping full three hundred feet without a break.
The Indians of Orosi tell you there is an enchanted mule stabled in the bright green basin into which those waters plunge, and that at night, laden with bags of gold and silver, the mule swims to the surface, climbs the huge steep rocks which overbangs the basin, and, speeding through the forest, deposit his burden in some grove or cavern which has not been yet discovered, and, probably, never shall.
The continuance of the wind making life intolerable, we adopted the plan, suggested by Scintharus, of hewing an extensive cavern in the ice, in which we stayed a month, lighting fires and feeding on fish; we had only to dig these out. In the end, however, provisions ran short, and we came out; the ship was frozen in, but we got her free; we then hoisted sail, and were carried along as well as if we had been afloat, gliding smoothly and easily over the ice.
