Nicolas Bouvier was a Swiss travel writer, photographer and picture researcher, born on 6 March 1929 in Grand-Lancy and died on 17 February 1998 in Geneva. After studying medieval history, Sanskrit and law at the University of Geneva, he left Belgrade in June 1953 in a Fiat Topolino with the painter Thierry Vernet; the journey took him to Kabul, and then alone on to Ceylon and Japan. It became L'Usage du monde (1963), published in English as The Way of the World and now a classic of travel writing. Later books include Chronique japonaise (1975), Le Poisson-scorpion (1982) and Journal d'Aran et d'autres lieux (1990).
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Nicolas Bouvier was a Swiss travel writer, photographer and picture researcher, born on 6 March 1929 in Grand-Lancy and died on 17 February 1998 in Geneva. After studying medieval history, Sanskrit and law at the University of Geneva, he left Belgrade in June 1953 in a Fiat Topolino with the painter Thierry Vernet; the journey took him to Kabul, and then alone on to Ceylon and Japan. It became L'Usage du monde (1963), published in English as The Way of the World and now a classic of travel writing. Later books include Chronique japonaise (1975), Le Poisson-scorpion (1982) and Journal d'Aran et d'autres lieux (1990).
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