A Fortune-teller Told Me

A Fortune-teller Told Me

1995 • 388 pages

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115 books

Italy

Who Wanders Alone
Prince Borghese's Trail: 10,000 Miles over Two Continents, Four Deserts, and the Roof of the World in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge
Amber, Furs and Cockleshells: Bike Rides with Pilgrims and Merchants
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Islands Ahead
Ghosts of the Rialto

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63 books

Germany

Prince Borghese's Trail: 10,000 Miles over Two Continents, Four Deserts, and the Roof of the World in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge
Amber, Furs and Cockleshells: Bike Rides with Pilgrims and Merchants
The Rise and Fall of Prussia
Corner Seat
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Husky Be My Guide
First Overland

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47 books

Vietnam

Bridge Across My Sorrows
The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Return Ticket
The China Voyage: A Quest by Bamboo Raft
Witness
The Road To Angkor

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124 books

Russia

Russia: A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People
All the Right Places
The Incredible Mile: Siberia - Mongolia - Uzbekistan
Siberian Dream
Off The Rails
Holy Russia: An Historical Companion to European Russia
Corner Seat

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27 books

Laos

One Foot in Laos
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China
Tiger for Breakfast
The Lands of Charm and Cruelty: Travels in Southeast Asia
Tiger Balm: Travels in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia
Tales from the Torrid Zone : Travels in the Deep Tropics

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238 books

China

In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Red Dust: A Path Through China
The Bonesetter's Daughter
Mao: The Unknown Story
The Great Wall
The Terracotta Army

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70 books

Myanmar

Where the Dawn Comes Up Like Thunder
With My Back to the East
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
Song of India
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West
In Quest of a Mermaid
First Overland

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35 books

Cambodia

The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China
The Five Pound Look
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
The Road To Angkor
Round the World in Seventy Days
Tiger for Breakfast
East Of Siam: Ramblings in the Five Divisions of French Indo-China

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29 books

Poland

The Rise and Fall of Prussia
Corner Seat
Imperium
Russia: A 1000 Year Chronicle of the Wild East
Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767
Stalin's Nose : Across the Face of Europe
The Bronski House

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48 books

Singapore

Where the Dawn Comes Up Like Thunder
Return Ticket
First Overland
Eastern Journey
High-Ho to London: Incidents and interviews on a leisurely journey by air from Australia to Britain
Tiger for Breakfast
Crossing the Shadow Line

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32 books

Mongolia

The Incredible Mile: Siberia - Mongolia - Uzbekistan
Off The Rails
Gantsara: Alone Across Mongolia
Five Months in a Leaky Boat: A River Journey Through Siberia
Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River
Kublai Khan: The Mongol King Who Remade China
In Search of Genghis Khan

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16 books

Memoir

Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood
Lucky Man
In Fond Remembrance of Me: A Memoir of Myth and Uncommon Friendship in the Arctic
Gypsy Moth Circles the World
Lobster Chronicles, The: Life on a Very Small Island
Running With Scissors
Born on a Blue Day

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59 books

Thailand

With My Back to the East
Siam: Land of Temples
Return Ticket
First Overland
Thailand Journey
The Tender Traveller
Round the World in Seventy Days

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2,746 books

Owned

Two Under the Indian Sun
Sailing with Mohammed
Beowulf
Slowly Down the Ganges
One Lonely Night
Killer Mine
The Snake

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1,507 books

Travel

City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
Red Dust: A Path Through China
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
Travelling: An Entertainment
The Wrong Way Home
On The Road To Damascus

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1,235 books

Own To Read

The Last of the Bedu: In Search of the Myth
27,000 Miles Through Australia
For Love and a Beetle: A Tale of Two Journeys
The World at Their Feet; the story of New Zealand mountaineers in the great ranges of the world
Camps and Climbs in Arctic Norway
A Single Swallow: Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales
Beyond the Last Oasis: A Solo Walk in the Western Sahara

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2,143 books

Non Fiction

Days and Nights in Calcutta
The Real "Bravo Two Zero"
Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission
In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Infiltrators: Guns Drugs Deception And Murder Duty Calls
Paddy O'Brien: Whistle While You Work