# The Way of the World

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- Book: [The Way of the World](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicolas-bouvier/the-way-of-the-world) ([The Way of the World.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicolas-bouvier/the-way-of-the-world.md))
- Authors: [Nicolas Bouvier](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicolas-bouvier), [Patrick Leigh Fermor](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-leigh-fermor), [Thierry Vernet](https://www.bookquiver.com/thierry-vernet), [Robyn Marsack](https://www.bookquiver.com/robyn-marsack)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-322-0
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2009-10-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In 1953, twenty-four-year old Nicolas Bouvier and his artist friend Thierry Vernet set out to make their way overland from their native Geneva to the Khyber Pass. They had a rattletrap Fiat and a little...