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Nicolas Bouvier

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born

March 06, 1929 in Grand-Lancy, Switzerland

died

February 17, 1998

gender

male

genre

Travel, Nonfiction

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Nicolas Bouvier (1929-1998) was a Swiss writer and photographer.

His travels all over the world incited him to recount his experiences and adventures. His work is marked by a commitment to report what he sees and feels, shorn of any pretence of omniscience, leading often to an intimacy bordering on the mystical. His journey from Geneva to Japan was in many ways prescient of the great eastward wave of hippies that occurred in the sixties and seventies - slow, meandering progress in a small, iconic car, carefully guarded idiosyncrasy, a rite of passage. Yet, it differs in that the travelogues this journey inspired contain deep reflections on man's intimate nature, written in a style very much aware and appreciative of the traditions and possib...more

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Books by Nicolas Bouvier

Average rating: 4.13 · 828 ratings · 85 reviews · 39 distinct works

	The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier, Robyn Marsack (Translator), Patrick Leigh Fermor (Introduction) 4.25 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 1963 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Japanese Chronicles 3.92 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1990 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Le poisson-scorpion 4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1982 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Le vide et le plein 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Journal d'aran et autres lieux 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Oeuvres 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Le Vide Et Le Plein: Carnets Du Japon, 1964 1970 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	My rating:
	Le Dehors Et Le Dedans 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1982 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Blätter von unterwegs : Aran, Tschedschu, Sian 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Le Hibou Et La Baleine 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Nicolas Bouvier

“Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.”
― Nicolas Bouvier, The Way of the World

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“That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus.”
― Nicolas Bouvier, The Way of the World