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World Wanderer

World Traveller

A life among maps, books, aeroplanes and stories.

A personal journey through the world, books, ideas and memory.

Travel · Books · Ideas · Memory

Ricardo Adrián Pena, author of the World Wanderer archive
One man · One world · Many paths
The author in the cockpit, wearing a communications headset

About

The man behind the archive

Curiosity first, itinerary second: every journey begins long before take-off, with a page read.

Recreational pilot, reader and traveller. 194 cities in 39 countries, 482 catalogued volumes and a personal archive of maps, documents and family memory.

Travel

The world explored

Four ways into the same territory: the list of cities, the map, the plotted routes and the chronicles of each journey.

My Country

Argentina, my point of departure

Every itinerary has an origin. Mine begins here, and from here it opens onto the rest of the world.

OriginJourneyWorld

Physical map of the Argentine Republic

Passions

What moves me

To fly, to travel, to discover.

Aviation as a passion and a way of seeing the world: the logbook, the aircraft and places seen from above.

Knowledge

Curiosity turned into knowledge

Library

The world discovered through reading

482 catalogued volumes, each with a full bibliographic record and a photograph of its actual cover.

Coat of arms of the Pena family

Heritage

The memory of where we come from

Family coat of arms, blazon and family tree: the record of the lineage that precedes all these journeys.

“Discovering the world is also a way of knowing oneself.”