L'arte di fare lo zaino

“When I walk with a friend, without attracting attention I sometimes try to test the waters, I nonchalantly throw out a question, a consideration on the weight we carry on our shoulders. Feigning indifference, I try to understand how my travel companion thinks, how much time it takes to fill his backpack, to decide what to put in it, to weigh every single object..." Walking is the art of removing. Remove weight from thoughts and get rid of the ballast that binds us to everyday life. The pilgrim leaves the superfluous at home to put only the bare essentials in his backpack. The selection and arrangement of the objects he carries in his backpack are part of an art that he has learned over time: with experience, by researching himself and also by sharing the secrets of more expert travel companions... From the safety pin to the notebook, from the pocketknife Swiss with Marseille soap, everything has its own origin and its own story to tell. If you peek into the traveler's backpack, it will be the objects, their choice and their arrangement, that tell the identity of their owner, giving life to a very personal biography. In the appendix are the tips for preparing the backpack by Fabrizio Ardito, Enrico Brizzi, Roberta Ferraris, Luca Gianotti, Luigi Nacci, Paolo Rumiz.