A Novelist's Around the World narrates the journey that Vicente Blasco Ibáñez undertook in 1921 aboard the ship Franconia and which took him around the world for six months. At the beginning of the book, the author debates with himself whether or not it is advisable to begin that journey, exposing the advantages and disadvantages of venturing into that dangerous undertaking or clinging to a comfortable, routine and luxurious life in his mansion in Menton, on the Coast. French blue. The arguments against are refuted and the realization of the trip becomes inevitable. The Franconia set sail from New York and Blasco Ibáñez manages to make this travel story an unbeatable opportunity to learn from the hand of a great writer what the world was like in the 1920s. We see the splendid and fascinating variety of some landscapes of legend, some disappeared or unrecognizable due to the homogenizing action of the globalized world we inhabit. In this work Vicente Blasco Ibáñez shows off his trained observation skills and the vast culture accumulated throughout his life. volume 1

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