How do words traverse space and time? A fascinating journey into the life of the book!

A wandering with stops at the battlefields of Alexander and the Villa of the Papyri, the palaces of Cleopatra and the place of Hypatia's murder, the libraries and manuscript copying workshops, the pyres where forbidden codes were burned and the gulags, the library of Sarajevo and the underground labyrinth of Oxford in the year 2000. A thread that connects the classics with the modern world...

A collective adventure with heroes thousands of faces, who contributed to the creation and protection of books: narrators, scribes, illustrators, translators, itinerant sellers, teachers, scholars, spies, rebels, nuns, slaves, adventurers... readers on mountain peaks and by the sea, in bustling capitals and in remote enclaves where knowledge finds refuge in chaotic times. The ordinary people, whose names are not recorded by History, are the protagonists of this book.