Poet and prose writer Sergei Gandlevsky collected his travel essays under one cover. Here is what he himself thinks on this topic: “Generally speaking, the assumption that the craft of a writer has even the slightest connection with the distances that the author covers is almost as absurd as the assumption that the skill of a surgeon or a carpenter somehow associated with the ease of climbing and movement of a specialist in space... And yet, many writers loved to travel around the world. A writer-tour guide, unlike a guide-journalist, often “blocks” with himself the sights for which he supposedly undertook the trip. It’s an amazing thing, but it’s precisely this strangeness that doesn’t bother a good writer.” Jordan, Italy, Cuba, USA, Morocco through the eyes of Sergei Gandlevsky.