and accredited international names. In 1922, the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize winner Fridtjof Nansen devised an international travel document that allowed refugees from the multiple war conflicts

that had ravaged the first quarter of the twentieth century to move freely between countries in order to improve their living conditions.

This safe-conduct was baptized as the Nansen Passport by the League of Nations and that was the name under which the Russian Cossack Ivan Sobolev published his memoirs.  He wandered for years around the world driving his motorcycle, following his exile from Russia after losing the civil war fighting with the counterrevolutionaries.

Of the 41 works that make up the archive of the Valencian publishing house Barlin, Alberto Haller (Valencia, 1989), founder of the company, describes “Pasaporte Nansen: la Vuelta al mundo en motocicleta,” "as the hidden jewel of the catalog, an exceptional book that sold just enough, coming out drop by drop, and for which I have an enormous affection."  He also recommends the Norwegian author Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, "she is a bestseller in her country and in Germany, the Planeta Group gave up their copyrights after publishing her first works, and a year ago I obtained 'El tejido de la naturaleza.'

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