La Via dei Vulcani

Year: 2007 Pages: 124 A flight overseas to learn to live among fire, ice, the Amazonian expanses and the poverty that dot everyday life in Ecuador. An enchanting and moving journey which, in the attack on Cotopaxi (the third highest active volcano in the world), lays the foundations for the discovery of a new and unsuspected country, in joy as in desperation. Then the preparation, the attempts, the fears and the enthusiasm become a pretext for an even greater conquest, marking the stay in a Marianist mission committed to the reforestation of the Ecuadorian Amazon and the education of the new Inca generations. Days on the wall alternate with those among the people, on the streets, among markets, ancient ruins and a joy of living that can be measured everywhere: in the neighborhoods where poverty is a road of no return, in the villages that grew up on the slopes of twenty-one volcanoes .