Meet Florian Coupé

"Leaving is an act of resistance, the only way to avoid dying out without realising it. To preserve the adolescent, incandescent fury that burns in all of us.
A graduate of Polytechnique, Florian Coupé trained as a water and forestry engineer, which enabled him to discover the equatorial jungle of French Guiana. After working for three years as a design engineer for Suez-Environnement, he decided to leave his sedentary life behind and embark on a year-long cycling trip from Paris to Hong Kong. As the days go by, the terrain reveals the reality of the people, the history and the map: the Balkans, Turkey, the ancient Persian Empire, India, the Indochinese peninsula...

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