Born 100 years ago in a Milanese salon, on 9 May Turisanda1924 took part in a Turin Literary Café, during the Turin International Book Fair - as part of the sponsorship of Turin Capital of Business Culture in collaboration with Unione Industriali di Torino.

Yes, because the coffee table book, which recounts the limited edition travel collection conceived for Turisanda1924's centenary, was conceived and produced as an editorial product, to browse through a collection of geographical, historical and naturalistic expeditions capable of retracing the routes traced by the ancient pioneers and which Turisanda1924 has chosen to celebrate as the ultimate form of exploration.

A form of 'estrangement', in the words of Marina Pierri - narratologist and accompanist of one of the tours - "a literary technique that tells of how we find ourselves re-experiencing things we have always seen and perhaps never perceived. The estrangement provided by the journey is important, I realise that for example even the sky changes depending on the destination.

If I had to describe the magic of the journey with one word, I would speak of 'astonishment' and who better than

Bella in 'Poor Creatures', my travel book of the heart, tells us about the astonishment in front of the world, the world that one does not know, a world that one must learn to explore."