After fantasizing, as a child, on atlases, geographic encyclopedias, illustrated postcards describing the farthest places, and starting to visit the most diverse places, the author has never stopped traveling with Teseo's spirit in the labyrinths of Mediterranean city of very ancient sediment, or with Alice's or a modern flâneur that is lost in the metropolises of the world by discovering in itself a profound feeling for everything we feel different and at the same time close, as evidenced by the notebooks that follow, marked by two symbolic elements: vertigo and the wheel.

If the journey turns out to be a subjective experience of excellence, writing it can be simple news or literature. And so what we mean by travel literature is nothing but chronicle and narration, prose, and essay. The texts contained in this volume, written over a decade of time, reflect only a part of the author's travels, even though they include five continents: what moves the writer in the act of traveling is not just anxiety of knowledge, but also of the joy of experience which, however, passes through the neutral territories of uncertainty and expectation, in other words the extension of real life to another, first imagined and then re-real. What moves him to write about all this is the desire to stop time, to put order into a world, the more concrete as well as the more elusive in the most secret nature.