The Expedition

A band of intrepid explorers embarks on a voyage through a strange frontier filled with mystery and beauty: the human body.

Donning his frock coat and ruffle collar, Tusseson documents everything that happens in his logbook: traveling by boat across the Stomach’s Stormy Sea, paddling through the Small Intestine’s Emerald Green Canals, camping at the Lungs (despite all the wind!), climbing the Muscle Mountains, escaping through the Nerve Forest to marvel at the night sky, Iris, reflected in the Pacific Tear Channel. As his fellow travelers return home one by one, Tusseson is left to carry on alone… but he won’t give up until he finds the Mystical Meadows of the Brain. Featuring lush and surreal illustrations, The Expedition renders the systems of the human body into wondrous landscapes that take readers on a fantastic voyage like no other.

Tuvalisa Rangström (b. 1972) is an actor and playwright. For the last 20 years, she has worked at a variety of city and county theaters in Sweden, made radio plays, television, and written opera librettos. Playfulness and clever issues characterize her writings, whether they are for children or adults.

Saskia Vogel is an award-winning author and translator of over two-dozen books from the Swedish language. She was Princeton University’s Fall 2022 Translator in Residence, a finalist for the 2021 PEN Translation Prize and the 2024 National Book Award. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she now lives in Berlin.