| A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East Contributor(s): Terzani, Tiziano (Author) |
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ISBN: 060980958X ISBN-13: 9780609809587 Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY) OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2002 Annotation: Now in paperback, this work by Terzani, a jet-age Asian correspondent, recounts his year of traveling the Far East by foot, boat, bus, car, and train--but never by airplane--while rediscovering the land, the people, and himself. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Travel | Asia - General - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.59" W x 9.19" (1.05 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "An utterly charming and engaging travel book that offers vivid portraits of unusual corners of Asia, told by a skilled raconteur whose eyes were open wide." --Los Angeles Times Book Review Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for an entire 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 reinvigorated himself in the process. |