This book travels
Found it? Welcome.
Found this book in a public book box? Someone left it there for you. Not by chance - by conviction.
Each copy carries a handwritten message from the author, a date, a place. Yours has a story. And that story continues with you.
Welcome to the journey.
Leave your traceEach point marks a book looking for its reader. Tap the map to mark where you found it.
39 copies in the wild
The book boxes
From Switzerland to Brittany, through the Jura, the Alps, the Loire Valley, Île de Ré and the Gard - each book box tells a chapter of the journey.
"Hard to summarise this rich novel, this human adventure that I took as a tribute to all those forced travellers."
- nanek, Babelio
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Continue the journey
When you've finished reading, don't let this book gather dust on a shelf. Give it wings again. Leave it in a book box, give it to someone, leave it on a bench.
"A book, like a baobab, doesn't grow for itself. It grows for those who will come to shelter under its branches."
Or if you want to keep it (we understand) - order your own copy.
The author
Joan Bastide - the Baobab Man. Writer, musician, researcher and humanitarian. Between Cévennes, Geneva, Dakar and the four corners of the world. This novel is his first. It won't be his last.
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