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Rubha Hunish is a real place in northern Scotland, but it is also the ideal destination of a journey along different paths pursuing a frontier that moves continually forward, from the Alps to the Andes to the Arctic. The Author has actually travelled to all those places and visits them once more by means of this book, treading also through other, more immaterial, places. Travelling is not only a motion inside a physical space, but also into the recesses of spirit, and this book - actually a journal deliberately disregarding any chronological and geographical order - is meant to inspire the reader to move forward in search of a final terra incognita that people can find only in their own inner selves. For, rather than a travel book, Rhubha Hunish's Journals is a book that travels together with its readers.
ca. 44,500 words
original text in Italian (Galaad Editori 2010)
world rights except for Italy
Davide Sapienza, translator and writer, contributes to several magazines in Italy and abroad. He is an expert of the culture and traditions of native Americans, and as a passionate traveller has a penchant for the Arctic lands and the American Great North. In 2006 he travelled in the Yukon and Klondike on the path of Jack London, of whom he collected rare and unpublished writings and translated several short stories and some of the most important novels. He lives in an Alpine village with his wife - the rock star Cristina Donà - and their baby son.