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“I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the story of my expeditions. But how long it has taken me to make up my mind to do so!”: these were the opening words of the book published in 1955 which brought him immediate fame, Tristes Tropiques, his “intellectual autobiography”. A book so magnificently well written that the jury of the Prix Goncourt that year published a communiqué expressing its regret at not being able to award it the prize because it was an essay and not a novel.