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De camino a Karachi
In 1969 the author begins his unusual journey east to save his girlfriend who is imprisoned in Beirut. When he doesn't achieve this, he decides to continue travelling. His open attitude to people and his positive poetic predisposition to marvel at everything is balanced by a sense of reality and justice which makes him rebel against the abuses he sees throughout his journey. He travels through Europe, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iran, andPakistan, and returns to Spain as a stowaway on a boat from Karachi to Marseille, by way of Africa. He tells us interesting stories about both the actual situation and the sensitive topic of human relations. The author is a poet who is in love with life and willing to live it to the limit, but always with humour, a social and political conscience and a critical and sensitive view of everything he sees, feels and breathes.