At 45, in a crisis situation, Jean Béliveau unexpectedly—almost as if on his own initiative—set off on a nearly moneyless on-foot round-the-world journey, abandoning his established way of life. In 11 years he circled the planet and returned home as a completely different person. The book gathers his impressions from the countries he walked through on his own two feet.
Contents:
Preface for Russian readers
"Me and my shoes…"
Beginning
Official statement
May God keep you!
Mexican antics
At the gates of the world
On the back of a dragon
Atacama Desert
In the land of Che
What other Good Hope?
Rambo in the country of time
Unconquered lands
Children of Abyssinia
A world without women
About sex and about the police
My love
Fear of tomorrow
El Quijote
Great, brothers!
For you, father!
Little horse
The Midwest
Between three worlds: from Istanbul to Tbilisi
A thousand and one nights of freedom
Struck by thunder
Under the roof of the world
Five crossings over the Blue River
Progress! I embrace you!
Lost paradise
In the seven winds
A little empire of a great sultan
Terra Australis Cognita
At the edge of the world
"The Last Crossing"