Corto Maltese is a series of adventure and fantasy comics named after the character Corto Maltese, an adventurous sailor. It was created by the Italian comic book creator Hugo Pratt in 1967. The comics are highly praised as some of the most artistic and literary graphic novels ever written and have been translated into numerous languages and adapted into several animated films.

Travelling towards us at the average rate of between 15 to 20 miles a day is a compact [soorage pacnet] of dynamic force known as Aidan de Brune. This extraordinary human machine has covered thousands of miles in his walk round Australia, and is now on the home stretch, somewhere along the coast of the Great Australian Bight, approaching South Australia's western border.

Ce samedi 14 avril 1928, tous les yeux sont rivés sur les aviateurs Dieudonné Costes et Joseph le Brix qui achèvent, ce jour, leur formidable randonnée aérienne autour du monde qui les a conduits jusqu’à Tokyo, soit un raid comptabilisant quelque 56'395 kilomètres réalisé en pas moins de 340 heures et 21 minutes de vol.

La partenza il giorno 11 agosto da Cervignano, insieme al suo compagno di vita, e questa volta anche di avventura, Amedeo. Lui a bordo della Jeep Willys che ha restaurato e con cui percorre le rotte centroasiatiche da oltre quattro anni come storico avventuriero, lei, Francesca D'Alonzo, in sella alla sua Yamaha Tènéré700 Spirit, alla prima esperienza di viaggio su due ruote.