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gen_japan.jpg I am an avid reader. When I came back from Asia I discovered travel books – books by people who travel, just like me – and I have devoured their pages, their adventures, their descriptions. Some writers have the most insane ideas, and yet the ideas are possible, great epics of imagination and perseverance. I know that, to travel, you need the strength to move mountains. And people with the added patience to write about it and inspire armchair and intrepid travellers alike, well, they have my respect.
  
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Gecko Tails, a Journey through Cambodia 102
Himalaya 60
Discovery Road 60
Penguins stopped play 54
A Walk in the Woods 82
To the Poles Without a Beard 89
Journey Without Maps 93
The Unveiling of Lhasa: High Adventure in Tibet 108
Down Under 70
Outcasts of the Islands: The Sea Gypsies of South East Asia 88
Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens 137
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan 127
A Pedaller to Peking 110
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush 117
Travelling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary 123
Misadventures in a White Desert (Antarctica) 94
Eating the Flowers of Paradise: A Journey through the Drug Fields of Ethiopia and Yemen 131
Where the Indus is Young 118
Touching Tibet: A Journey into this Forbidden Kingdom 117
Return to Tibet: Tibet after the Chinese Occupation 117
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi 107
The Last Secrets of the Silk Road 88
Catfish and Mandala: A Vietnamese Odyssey 109
Seven Years in Tibet 116
Om: An Indian Pilgrimage 99
Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia 106
The Sewing Circles of Herat 114
The Jadu House: Travels in Anglo-India 88
Yoga School Dropout 77
One Foot in Laos 104
Ciao Asmara: A Classic Account of Contemporary Africa 76
In Siberia 88
The Storyteller's Daughter: Return to a Lost Homeland 81
The Age of Kali 197
Journey into Russia 199
Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples 179
Just Add Dust: Overland from Cape to Cairo 228
Namma: A Tibetan Love Story 141
Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea 90
Nomad: One Woman's Journey into the Heart of Africa 98
Full Tilt: Dunkirk to Delhi by Bicycle 97
The Accursed Mountains: Journeys in Albania 168
Two Wheels in the Dust: From Kathmandu to Kandy 144
Tibet Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land 113
Slowly Down the Ganges 119
Holy Cow 116
Congo Journey 130
Under the Dragon 123
The Last Disco in Outer Mongolia 123
In Xanadu: A Quest 122
 
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  • Asia, the south east 2009  ( 9 items )
    Sunshine, beaches, traffic, genocide and secret wars, strange food, Angkor Wat.
      
  • Asia, the subcontinent 2008/2009  ( 33 items )
    Chaos. Wonderful, utter, chaos.
       
  • Middle East 2007/2008  ( 17 items )
    A slight change of plan (it always happens...) but still on our way to Angkor Wat and dreams of Cambodia (and now eating much better local food, to be grateful for the little things, although Alison refuses to eat horse).
      
  • Africa 2007  ( 25 items )

    This is one crazy idea, I will agree. Going overland from Cape Town to Angkor Wat, the ancient temple complexes in Cambodia. Using whatever transport we can find. People have done crazier things.

     

  • Insane Ideas  ( 5 items )
    The highest pendulum swing in the world, shark cage diving, whale watching, jumping out of an aeroplane...
      
  • Journalism  ( 64 items )
    Published articles.

  • Asia 2004/2005  ( 20 items )
    Shanti shanti. I learnt many things in my travels through Asia but the one that stands out the most is the Indian concept of shanti shanti. There is a wisdom in the things that are happening. Not that we must blindly accept these things - for I have realised we have more power than most to change our realities - just that things happen for a reason, and we must follow the reason. Peacefully. If it hasn’t killed you yet, it probably won’t. Asia has always appealed to me. This was my second trip to the continent and it is still, for me, a place of deep spiritual intensity and grace.
      
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