Nicos Hadjicostis, Round-the-world Traveller, Releases New Book ‘Destination Earth’
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Ask author Nicos Hadjicostis where he comes from and he’s likely to tell you he’s a global citizen, or a citizen of the world. He certainly has the credentials, because he’s travelled around the world and has just released his new book ‘Destination Earth’, a philosophical book full of ideas about life, culture and multiple perspectives.
“Travel is the departure from one’s little pond. It is the bold renouncement of the petty comforts that hold us prisoner. It is a movement away from the known towards the unknown and unimaginable. Travel is expansion, widening, opening-up…”
Nicos Hadjicostis’ roots are Cypriot and since 2005 he left the world of business behind and went on the road, circling the globe on a mission to expand his horizons. After completing his journey, his new mission has been to write about his experiences and spark the travel bug in others. If ‘Destination Earth’ doesn’t fire up your imagination with visions of exploring the richness of other cultures, then it’s safe to say that the cocoon of suburbia and cafe society is for you 🙂
After years as a media executive, Nicos Hadjicostis abandoned the business world and set his sights on a larger and more fulfilling goal: to explore our planet as if it were one huge country, a single destination. Starting from New York and traveling west for six-and-a-half-years, the author visited six continents and seventy countries delving deep into their peoples, cultures and natural wonders.
Destination Earth – A New Philosophy of Travel by a World-Traveler is the result of this life-transforming journey. While many travelers today concern themselves with destinations solely for amusement, relaxation, and entertainment, the author proposes a more meaningful, rewarding, and fulfilling way of viewing travel and its relation to life. Enriched with travel incidents and some of the author’s best travel photos, Destination Earth sheds light on both travel and life. Ideas and experiences are interwoven into a newly created Philosophy of Travel that is practical and easy to read.
It is now available both as a printed book and an ebook on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. If the printed version of the book appears “Temporarily Out of Stock” in the UK, do not be deterred – books are available. On a number of other Amazon stores (Canada, Australia, Holland, Germany, France, India) you will currently find it only as an ebook, but it will soon be offered as a printed book too.
Tuesday Letters
Shorter stories can be read via the author’s ‘Tuesday Letters’ which are released on his blog http://nicoshadjicostis.com/and are also about the highlights of his travels, philosophy and cultural musings. My favourite so far is ‘Wilma’, an excerpt is below:
Ten minutes later, as if remembering something important he ought to have told me earlier, the taxi driver said in broken English: “You sure want go Cancun? Hurricane go there!” He turned around, picked up a newspaper from the back seat, and handed it to me. I couldn’t believe my eyes: A huge, impressive color photo covered half the front page. It looked like an enormous spiral galaxy, just like the one in which our solar system is situated! “That’s Wilma,” he said. “Wilma, the galaxy?” I almost replied. “Wilma, big hurricane!” he added with emphasis. Well, the main title below was perfectly clear: “Wilma viene con furia!” (“Wilma approaches with fury!”) “But no problem,” the driver continued, in an attempt not to lose the ride. “Not exactly pass over Cancun. Centro Wilma will be 10 kilometros in the sea, in Gulf of Mexico. Expertos say she hit tonight,” he said in broken English well-spoken.
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