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About this book
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 and in Europe too… Almost every page and every story celebrates the mystical and the unknowable. It is a fabulous story of renewal and change… Terzani is already something of a legend. He has written magnificently all his life. Never better than now.'
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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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- CHAPTER ONE A Blessed Curse
- CHAPTER TWO A Death that Failed
- CHAPTER THREE On Which Shore Lies Happiness?
- CHAPTER FOUR The Body-Snatchers of Bangkok
- CHAPTER FIVE Farewell, Burma
- CHAPTER SIX Widows and Broken Pots
- CHAPTER SEVEN Dreams of a Monk
- CHAPTER EIGHT Against AIDS? Raw Garlic and Red Peppers
- CHAPTER NINE The Rainbow Gone Mad
- CHAPTER TEN Sores Under the Veil
- CHAPTER ELEVEN The Murmurs of Malacca
- CHAPTER TWELVE An Air-Conditioned Island
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN A Voice from Two Thousand Years Ago
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Never Against the Sun
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Missionary and the Magician
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Hurray for Ships!
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Nagarose
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Buddha’s Eyelash
- CHAPTER NINETEEN The Destiny of Dogs
- CHAPTER TWENTY A Ship in the Desert
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE With my Friend the Ghost
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO The Peddlers of the Trans-Siberian Railway
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Better than Working in a Bank
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR The Rhymeless Astrologer
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE TV for the Headhunters
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX New Year’s Eve with the Devil
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN The Spy who Meditates
- EPILOGUE And Now What?
- INDEX
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
- About the Publisher