Mező Szilveszter szerk.: Hátizsákkal és bakancsban a Föld körül. Balázs Dénes világjáró geográfus (Debrecen, 2007)

Around the Globe in trekking boots and with backpack

For Dénes Balázs, the most important objective of his life as a geographer was to see and study as much of the Earth as possible, then to process the data thus collected, and to pass it on to others. During these backpack trips, which were mostly selfsponsored and modestly financed, he managed to cover almost the entire globe. He got to roam each one of the individual continents with the sole exception of Antarctica, thus conducting valuable observational and collecting trips within the field of natural geography in as many as 130 countries. His interest was never restricted only to the beauties of inanimate nature. In the course of his voyages, he always paid particular attention to the local flora and fauna as well as the life and everyday material culture of the native inhabitants. Then he wrote fascinating accounts in the forms of travelogues about his eventful and edifying journeys, which have deservedly become ever-popular pieces in Hungarian geography-related popular scientific literature since. Balázs carried out significant petrographical, zoological, Somewhere in Indonesia (Photo by Dénes Balázs)