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The anthologies are always complex, not only by the variety of topics, but also by the plurality of tones and views; is usually read in a dispersed manner, fetching chapters of self-interest, but in this case it is recommended an orderly and complete reading, because the dialogue becomes established with the texts is very rich, plural and converged at the same time. Basically, both chronic travel as historiographical studies reach an almost common conclusion: travel is very difficult. The journey is a source of conflicts of various kinds, a voltage source, a danger; autobiographical narrative and experience-the traveler, just being a system to express a kind of feeling of difference, identification, uniqueness compared to the other question (and inevitably, in most times, a feeling of superiority). The journey makes the traveler on a special being, someone who identifies himself for the act of traveling. So feel admired Alexander von Humboldt, singular and unique to the American towering mountain ranges, and Manuel Lucena Giraldo has to reflect on the narrative strategies of a revolutionary scientist, but also responsible for the production of an image of America mythological connotations -nacionalistas. It seems that travelers are a different feel that theoretical iterative search topic of the encounter with the other. And in some cases, the consequences of that feeling of difference become so extreme that the complaint is imposed. It does severely Antonio Pérez, from the analysis of articles and reports, some very current on the Amazon and the impact of the foreign in its fragile anthropological plurality, to show that racism and patronizing tone of superiority still very much alive among the adventurers Western travelers, much as it is disguised as scientific expedition or humanitarian indigenismo.