Traveling through some forgotten places of the world – remote because of their physical or political isolation – the author tries to catch their soul. He tells about the oddities of lands and their people and how they act upon each other. Though the descriptions, comments and interpretations that the author proposes are very interesting, the narration is in general detached maybe because most of the essays were originally written for travel magazines. The book keeps the reader’s curiosity alive, but doesn’t awake many emotions. Quite far from Sterne’s “Sentimental Journey”.