We begin to see "other lives" the moment we leave the house we lived in. Then, by moving beyond that neighborhood, that city, and that country. The sense of wonder that set Abdullah Kibritçi on his path sprouts right here: "I had to see what was happening in the world." The journey that began by crossing the boundaries of the neighborhood he lived in as a child now takes us on a voyage through the lines of a book. Thus, we have the opportunity to meet Osman from Rwanda, Ayşe from Tanzania, Amani from Burundi, Nurullah from Cuba, Aziz, Mebruka, and many others, and to hear their stories from their own lips. In *Katmandu’ya Yol Arkadaşı Aranıyor*, Kibritçi conveys stories of people from around thirty countries he visited over the course of eight years for humanitarian work and documentary filmmaking. The book progresses with the rhythm of a story while making the reader feel as if they are leafing through a traveler’s private journal. How are lives being lived on a single planet, in geographies so different from one another, at the same time? "While the ferry was departing from Eminönü to Üsküdar, it was night in the deserts of Chad, and I was preparing to sleep under the stars with the camel herders I encountered in the desolate desert."