The book by the poet and prose writer, deputy executive editor of the “Ex libris” supplement to Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Andrei Shcherbak-Zhukov, includes stories about his literary travels and, one might even say, adventures. The author talks about poetry festivals, book exhibitions and fairs, and conventions of science fiction writers. The geography of these events is vast: London and Frankfurt, Hungary and Sweden, Perm Cherdyn and Crimean Partenit, Kazan and Yelabuga, Kaliningrad region and Orenburg... Poets and writers visited everywhere, communicated with each other and met with readers everywhere. Together, these essays form a powerful canvas of literary life in Russia and Europe over the last decade.