A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780609809587)

"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.

Author: Tiziano Terzani
ISBN-10: 060980958X
ISBN-13: 9780609809587
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Language: English
Published: 04/23/2002
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.19h x 5.59w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/09/2002 pg. 32