✍ Scribed by Thorkild Hansen
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
l 4 gennaio 1761 una nave lascia il porto di Copenaghen diretta a Costantinopoli: a bordo vi sono i membri della prima grande spedizione scientifica danese nell’Europa dei lumi. La meta è lo Yemen, la terra che, fin dall’antichità, porta uno di quei nomi «che usiamo dare ai luoghi che conosce solo la nostra nostalgia». «Perché l’Arabia Felice è chiamata felice?» scrive nel diario il giorno della partenza Peter Forskkål. Ricostruendo sulla base di innumerevoli documenti la storia del «viaggio arabo» voluto da Federico V, e seguendolo tappa per tappa fino allo Yemen e alla lunga odissea del rientro in patria, Thorkild Hansen racconta in realtà la storia di ogni esperienza umana: quel viaggio di andata e ritorno di cui parlano i miti, le fiabe, le epopee.
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