My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.
Nothing was really so important to my father as the achievement of selflessness. He rarely mentioned it directly, but tried to guide us to it in a roundabout way.
Real terror is a crippling experience. You sweat so much that your skin goes all wrinkly like when you've been in the bath all afternoon. And then the scent of your sweat changes. It smells like cat p...
Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.
The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.
The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of...
The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.
Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.
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....
Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.
To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path
Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destinati...
My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, al...
Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable t...
Stories are a communal currency of humanity.
The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up.
Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me...
Everyone knows that even the best exorcism has to be renewed once in a while.
I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it.
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