At the center of Annemarie Schwarzenbach's work is travel. For the first time, the most striking passages on this theme from essays, reports, stories, diary entries, and letters are presented in book form. The partly unpublished excerpts were created during her journeys through Europe, Asia, Africa, and the USA from 1933 to 1942. The "longing for the absolute" (Annemarie Schwarzenbach) is the true driving force for the "incurable traveler" to explore the world. She dedicates dense poetic descriptions to the encounter with herself in the tension of archaic landscapes. However, the toolkit of this eyewitness and reporter also includes critical and insightful analyses of political catastrophes and social misery. Reflections on being on the move, the act of departing, and the journey itself run like a red thread throughout her work.