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Fortune-teller Told Me - Earthbound Travels In The Far East

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Description for Fortune-teller Told Me - Earthbound Travels In The Far East paperback. Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author - a seasoned correspondent - took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to understand and respect older ways of life and beliefs now threatened by the crasser forms of Western modernity. Num Pages: 384 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1F; VXA; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 276.

Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author – a seasoned correspondent – took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to understand and respect older ways of life and beliefs now threatened by the crasser forms of Western modernity.

William Shawcross in the Literary Review praised Terzani for ‘his beautifully written adventure story… a voyage of self-discovery… He sees fortune-tellers, soothsayers, astrologers, chiromancers, seers, shamans, magicians, palmists, frauds, men and women of god (many gods) all over Asia ... Read more

Yes, the fortune-teller did save him from an air-crash in Cambodia. Looking back afterwards, Terzani reckoned that ‘I was marked for death and instead I was reborn.’

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Flamingo
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780006550716
SKU
9780006550716
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Tiziano Terzani
For 25 years Terzani has lived in Asia, witnessing and reporting on its wars and revolutions. Born in Florence, educated in Europe and the US, Terzani became Far Eastern correspondent of Der Spiegel in 1971. In 1975 he was one of the few Western journalists to stay behind in Saigon and to witness the North Vietnamese take over the city. ... Read more

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