For the first time, there are four eyes, not two. The great reporter takes his son on a journey from Paris to Beijing - an initiation and a photo story.

He's been waiting for 15 years, filling his bedroom with maps of the world and devouring atlases as he followed his father's journeys. His name is Delazad, and today is the day that his father's promise will be fulfilled - "When you're fifteen, you can come with me"... He gave his word.

They arrive in Beijing, get some shots of the magnificent Olympic Games, and then head into the countryside and to see them through the eyes of ordinary Chinese peasants. They cross the Taklamakan Desert, the Ural Mountains, and carry on to Istanbul... They are following the Silk Road by train, that route that has bound Europe and Asia together, and that now binds father and son.

They have a message to bring: education for the children of the world will change the world. This is Reza's dream - his motivation for pushing back the barriers of ignorance and building a world without war and without borders. Reza is an internationally-renowned photojournalist who has travelled through more than 100 countries, covered countless wars, written 11 books and won every prize that's going. He has produced reports for the National Geographic Magazine and his association Ainaworld, and you will find this epic journey with his son here.

Read an extract of the book 'Chemins parallèles'