Nicolas Bouvier

1929–1998 (age 69)

Biography

Nicolas Bouvier (6 March 1929 in Grand-Lancy – 17 February 1998) was a 20th-century Swiss traveller, writer, picture editor and photographer. He studied in Geneva in the 1950s and lived there later between his travels.

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