Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist.
Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.
Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us al, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged....
There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.
The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.
In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.
A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.
Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.
Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.
The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.
There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood. With such a book the impact isn't necessarily obvious at...
As far as I was concerned, a little danger of head-shrinking is a small price to pay in return for a people who have remained true to an ancient code.
As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.
The first few hours in the cell were quite stimulating. I'd never been in a prison cell before and was quite enjoying the experience.
In Morocco, said Osman, word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.
Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling over the end of a bed was the best way to achieve this. It was while I w...
You have no idea. when you're a salesman here in Marrakech medima, lying is the first thing you learn. generation after generation, they pass it on. its the secret ingredient the foundationfor a sales...
He came to the conclusion that humans confused the content with the container.They would gorge themselves on great plates of inferior food, imagining it to be delicious because there was simply so muc...
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