Cristina BRITO is a researcher, master and doctor, writer and mother, above all travels through herself and on the spaces where she has gone to wish "The next travel" (A viagem seguinte).

In this book she navigates through the sea «the beginning of all» touching some ports in insular Africa of São Tomé and Príncipe and Cape Verde, for diverse times and circunstances, drawing a discontinuous graphic of emotions and telluric thoughts (certainly, a biologist seizes her surrounding matter), frequently poetic, cause «her visceral connection to the green world, to the blue ocean and to the unbearable punch of humid and animal heat» provides a suitable environment to her singular and original expression form.

While Cristina, between Lisbon and São Tomé, seated down «at an outdoor café looking at the river» finished this book and «arranges her for the next travel» also, on the Tajo banks, we heard «the voices of our all ancesters».

Armando TABORDA, 2014

(1st edition, 2014; 2nd edition, 2017)