Javier Reverte's last trip Where is the line that separates Asia from Europe? Where does the East begin, understood as geography and as feeling? Javier Reverte chose that vaporous and vulnerable border, the oldest in the world, to make his last trip. He chose Istanbul and its magnificent Bosphorus Strait as his gateway, and then entered the remote Iranian lands by train. The result is a beautiful and nostalgic journey that stops both in the pages of ancient history -in the wake of Alexander the Great- and contemporary history -the wars and revolutions that marked the convulsive 20th century-, and that reminds us of why Javier Reverte was the best writer of travel literature in the Spanish language. He wanted to go to the Middle East, a region whose name resonates with immensity, ancient empires, shocking wars, lost armies, buried cities, dead religions, old silenced languages; also to pogroms and genocides, bloodthirsty sultans, fierce warriors and warlike kings, and along with all this, to sensuality, adventure and poetry. Javier Reverte