THE BLUE LANTERN – Stories from the Road

  • Extraordinary destinations and unique behind-the-scenes insights: Gastmann's vivid storytelling reveals surprising and moving moments for a one-of-a-kind experience.
  • His travel reports were all Spiegel bestsellers!

The world is vast, round, and brilliantly blue – and Dennis Gastmann has experienced it all. Sometimes in glimpses, sometimes in full technicolor, and sometimes like a fever dream, from Andalusia to Allahabad, Sydney to Swakopmund, and the thousand lights of Manhattan to Madurai, the Tamil city of temples and sorcerers. In this book, the seasoned reporter shares his adventures around the world.

He travels with a gold prospector through the Australian desert, dances with Finland's most famous tango instructor, and philosophizes on Taiwan with a Chinese dissident about the price of freedom. In India, he kneels before the leader of the Hijra, the third gender, and in California, he rolls through a "drive-in funeral". In southern Spain, he accompanies the hooded debt collectors of the "Monastery of Cashiers" on their not-so-religious mission.

Gastmann visits a "patriotic lesson" at Putin's former elementary school, where children learn to handle Kalashnikovs, and finds himself in the grips of the Russian secret service. Vivid, touching, and sometimes outlandish stories and experiences – encircling that globe the good Lord hung in the night sky for us humans: the blue lantern.

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Berlin
  • Release: 13.08.2024
  • ISBN: 978-3-7371-0210-0
  • 272 Pages
  • Author: Dennis Gastmann

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Dennis Gastmann

Dennis Gastmann , born in 1978, traveled the world for years as a foreign correspondent. His highly praised book Mit 80.000 Fragen um die Welt was published in 2011, followed by his journey from Germany over the Alps to Italy to atone for his sins ( Gang nach Canossa , 2012). For Atlas der unentdeckten Länder (2016), he visited the last unexplored locations on Earth, and he explored Japan for  Der vorletzte  Samurai (2018). His travel reports have all become Spiegel bestsellers. His latest work is Dalee , his first novel. Dennis Gastmann lives in Hamburg and works around the world.