This book is a veritable intellectual thicket, in which one could easily get lost. Literary heroes whose characters reflect various kinds of adventures are, to name but a few, Homer’s vagrant, Chauser’s pilgrims, Cervantes’ knight, Swift’s adventurer, Defoe’s builder, Rousseau’s pupil, Joyce’s flaneur, but also Morrell’s insurgent, even Roddenberry’s spaceship, or even ultimately, Flaubert’s bungler. Various too are the philosophical writings on the traveler, from Todorov’s classifications, Derrida’s tension between departure and arrival, Serres’ invocation of Hermes as god of interpretation and understanding, Deleuze’s advocating of nomadic thinking, Lyotard’s warnings against the instrumentalization of the ratio, and finally Rancière’s moral of the ignorant schoolmaster. The difficult endeavor of placing all these tendencies of bygone epochs and pulsating modernity under a single umbrella focuses on the motif of travel, seeking to uncover in it novel interpretations. Despite the kaleidoscopic view, the text forms a single trope.