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Subject(s)

• East Asia—Description and travel [Browse]
• Southeast Asia—Description and travel [Browse]
• Terzani, Tiziano—Travel—East Asia [Browse]
• Terzani, Tiziano—Travel—Southeast Asia [Browse]

Summary note

• "Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for a whole year, Tiziano Terzani - a vastly experienced Asia correspondent - took what he called "the first step into an unknown world....It turned out to be one of the most extraordinary years I have ever spent: I was marked for death, and instead I was reborn."".
• "Traveling by foot, boat, bus, car, and train, he visited Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Mongolia, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Geography expanded under his feet. He consulted soothsayers, sorcerers, and shamans and received much advice - some wise, some otherwise - about his future. With time to think, he learned to understand, respect, and fear for older ways of life and beliefs now threatened by the crasser forms of Western modernity.
• He rediscovered a place he had been reporting on for decades. And it reinvigorated him."--BOOK JACKET.

Notes

• First published: London : HarperCollins, 1997.
• Includes index.

ISBN

060960841X (hardcover)

LCCN

00053530

OCLC

45325464

RCP

C - S

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