In the summer of 1953, a young man of 24, the son of a good Calvinist family, left Geneva and his university aboard his Fiat Topolino. Nicolas Bouvier has already made short trips or longer stays across Europe. This time, he is aiming further: Turkey, Iran, Kabul and then the border with India. He is accompanied by his friend Thierry Vernet, who will document the expedition in drawings and sketches. 
 These six months of travel through the Balkans, Anatolia, Iran then Afghanistan will give birth to one of the great masterpieces of so-called "travel" literature,  L'Usage du monde, which would not be published until ten years later, before becoming a classic. 
 By his writing sparing its effects, and which does not play "literature", Nicolas Bouvier has succeeded in achieving what few have achieved: a pure travelogue, in the great tradition of discovery and wonder , coupled with a reflection on a way of being in the world among his contemporaries, in all latitudes.
 Authors biography
 Nicolas bouvier  was born in Grand-Lancy, near Geneva, in 1929. Writer, poet, photographer, designer, iconographer, he is one of the greatest travel writers of the second half of the 20th century. Outraged  The usage of the world, he is notably the author of  Japanese Chronicle,  The Scorpion Fish,  The Outside and the Inside,  Journal of Aran and other places. Nicolas Bouvier died in 1998; he is buried next to his house in Coligny, in the canton of Geneva.
 Thierry vernet  (1927-1993), painter, draftsman and engraver, friend of Nicolas Bouvier, illustrated their trip of 1953-1954, recounted in  The Use of the World.