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When Sylvain Tesson left the colorful yellow houses of the French Riveria for a ski trek across the Alps with his friend Daniel du Lac, a high-altitude mountain guide, he didn't know what exactly would await him. Over the course of four years, from 2018 to 2021, they ascended high into the Alps in winter, following the curve of the mountains from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic, entering into a white world entirely of snow, bitterly cold, and overlooked by an empty sky; only the effort of moving forward, one stride at a time, separated the days from one another.

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Über Neuengland gibt es eine Menge Klischees: von bunt gefärbten Wäldern, Truthahn essenden Pilgervätern und liebenswerten Indianern. Bevor man die Reise in den Nordosten Amerikas antritt, sollte man sich vor allem eins klarmachen: Nirgendwo ist Amerika amerikanischer als hier. Wer den Blick frei behält, kann dem Wesen Amerikas mit diesem Hörbuch auf den Grund gehen.