Assouline | Voyageurs Du Monde: Manifesto for the New Traveler

In an age when the world has never seemed more accessible, Voyageurs du Monde: A Manifesto for the New Traveler asks a more essential question: What is the new traveler? Instinctive yet informed, curious rather than conquering, drawn to the places that resist easy framing. The journey begins where the itinerary loosens: in the unexpected detour, the night train, the road that continues past the obvious destination, the off-season city, the conversation that changes everything.

This book is an invitation to reconsider travel not as a checklist but as a living experience, one shaped by slowness, by disorientation, by the stories that lie around every corner. With an introduction by Voyageurs du Monde’s CEO, Jean-François Rial, the book draws on nearly fifty years of the travel company’s expertise to chart something more intimate than a route: a philosophy of movement. To travel is to learn, to grow, to meet the world without the distance of a curated itinerary, and to understand that wonder comes with responsibility.

• Author: Jean-François Rial
• Hardcover
• Page Count: 280 pages
• Over 100 illustrations
• Dimensions: W 10 x L 13 x D 1.5 in
• Weight: 5.07 lbs