ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses traveling in Ruy Duarte de Carvalho as a way of bridging borders inside and outside of Angola. He highlighted two major consequences of his life course as he drew up his biography: his birthplace, Portugal, which stood as a reference of his voluntary exile, and the quickness of everything that happened in his life. An important aspect of his travels was the fact that he transcended the urban environment of Luanda through distinctly differentiated actions and thoughts; he entered new spaces, with the aim of observing, analyzing and disclosing them. He used his experience and his resources to give substance to metaphysical, geological, ecological and historical landscapes. To him, literature and travel shared the same nature, that is, they worked as symbolic tools, preserving the memory of itineraries that crossed geographical and physical territories and absorbing the specificities of distinct realities.
