"As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end."

Adventure, Danger, Travel, Fear

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"As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end."

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"Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart."

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"Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way."

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"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."

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"A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you."

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"The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail."

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"I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains."

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"My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind."

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"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."

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"Osman and Prideep had been in my employment for some weeks. Every Friday I would take the to lunch. It was the high point of their calender. During the meal I would harangue them as a reminder of what they had been hired for: but my orations never seemed to increase their output. I realised later that, in the East, a commitment to produce does not automatically accompany employment."

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