Around the World in 22 Books
A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound
Travels in the Far-East by Tiziano Terzani
First published in 1997.
This edition by Flamingo.
Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for a whole year, Terzani travelled by foot, boat, bus, car and train visiting 11 Asian countries. Consulting soothsayers and shamans wherever he went, he grew to understand and respect older ways of life and beliefs now threatened by the more brash forms of Western modernity, and he recounts his travels with wit and affection.
