Later, because of a contract with a publisher, he moved to Sanpierdarena (Genoa), but his gloomy disposition, economical problems and his wife’s incipient insanity induced him to go back to Turin after only two years. In 1892 he married and moved to Turin the economic capital of king Umberto’s Italy, following a route many Venetians had covered before to create the FIAT’s wealth under the shadow of the Basilica of Superga. After that his life became an overwrought sequence of days full of arguments with his publishers, debts, removals, illnesses and accidents. Salgari left his job on the freighter for unknown reasons and began his career as a writer publishing the short story The Savages of Papuasia in 1883. Though he thereafter spoke of fabulous journeys in faraway countries this was his only real “exotic” experience even though he traveled the world's oceans and seas in his writings. Emilio Salgari was born in Verona, northeastern Italy in 1862 and attended the Nautical School in Venice until 1881 when he interrupted his studies and found a job on a freighter sailing along the coasts of the Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas.
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