From a distance so close, Ivo von Renner (born 1949 in Hamburg, lives in Hamburg, works worldwide) has become an icon of advertising photography with his campaigns for VW, Triumph-Adler, and Pernod. Now, the photographer, artist, and traveler presents a very personal book. In over 200 postcards written to his family over three decades, he captures perhaps the most beautiful connection between home and wanderlust. Moments and years, places and scenarios, exciting backstories and spontaneous thoughts come together in skillfully arranged tableaux to create an irresistible narrative around the globe. It is an invitation to explorers, dreamers, the curious, and the longing. Here, they can discover that at the end of every journey, one thing stands out above all: the feeling of having come a little closer to oneself. With a foreword by Wolfgang Joop.