Schrecklich schön und weit und wild

Weekend trip or around the world, package tour or backpacker trip, collecting countries or simply last minute: we travel for all we're worth and in every conceivable variation. But what is behind the desire to travel? What has become of the great promise that the world once was? How has travel changed? Matthias Politycki, a novelist and lyricist in his main profession and a passionate traveller in his second, has not written a travel guide, but a book about travelling - and a very personal book about universal questions.