Elisa and Alessandro get married and as a wedding present they decide to put their daily routine on hold, to try to savor life slowly and realize a secret dream: to travel around the world without ever flying. He is a professional photographer, she is an interpreter by training but a corporate employee, the two drop everything and set off by train from Verona, backpacks on their shoulders, without knowing where this journey, on which they are launching themselves without a parachute, will take them. They travel slowly, using trains, buses, ships and adapting to the most uncomfortable and unusual situations. In their first year of marriage, they walk the world hand in hand and rediscover a whole new passion for life, learning to see things and people in a new light. It's a love story, an adventure lived by two.
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Elisa Bocca was born in Ivrea in 1980 and spent the first fifteen years of her life living in various African countries.
Her itinerant childhood profoundly shaped the rest of her life, making her a captive of the beauty of travel and instilling in her a deep love for languages and foreign cultures.
At sixteen, she won a one-year scholarship to the United States, where she lived with a local family, and at twenty-five she moved to Shanghai, where she lived and worked for three years, developing a passion for Chinese culture and Mandarin.
In 2012, she married Alessandro and set off with him on a journey around the world, which they completed in 321 days without ever boarding a plane. She recounts this adventure in her first book: Coipiediperterra.
