But perhaps the most amazing example of the lengths that people were prepared to go to to help me read the world, came towards the end of my quest, when I tried to get hold of a book from the tiny, Portuguese-speaking African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe.
Men måske var det mest fantastiske de længder som folk var villige til at gå for at hjælpe mig læse verdenen, kom hen imod slutning af min søgen, da jeg forsøgte at få fat i en bog fra det lille portugisisk-talende afrikanske ø nation Sao Tome and Principe.