Used book – Le marin à l'ancre, Bernard Giraudeau

Roland is paralyzed, confined to his wheelchair. Bernard, on the other hand, was a sailor and travels the world. For several years, he wrote to his friend, allowing him to participate in his sporting, theatrical, cinematic, and personal adventures. He traveled for him. Far from tourism and self-complacency, these letters form an extraordinary narrative, blending the memories of the seventeen-year-old sailor who innocently discovered the world of ports and women (the little disabled girl from Diego Suarez, the prostitute from Kobe, the lady from Balboa...) with the reflections and feelings of the man he has become. He searches for himself from the Trans-Amazonian Highway to Patagonia and Africa, sensitive to injustices, to scents, to sensuality, to women. A chronicle of a friendship without pathos that dreamed of an escape to the Marquesas, these letters reveal a precise and original perspective served by the brutal yet lyrical style of a man who runs for fear of falling.