A very enjoyable and interesting book. Made me want to meet the author, who's a journalist of Italian extraction but who's lived so much in Asia that it's in his bones. He has a nice mix of journalistic and personal style, arrogant yet humble, in telling his story of how he travelled over sea and land for one year because a fortune teller 20 years before had warned that he would come to harm if he flew in a plane this year. He still managed to be at the right place at historic moments in Asia, and his experiences and observations make interesting reading, especially for me, an Asian living in Australia (the inverse of his situation).
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
A Fortune Teller Told Me - Tiziano Terzani
A very enjoyable and interesting book. Made me want to meet the author, who's a journalist of Italian extraction but who's lived so much in Asia that it's in his bones. He has a nice mix of journalistic and personal style, arrogant yet humble, in telling his story of how he travelled over sea and land for one year because a fortune teller 20 years before had warned that he would come to harm if he flew in a plane this year. He still managed to be at the right place at historic moments in Asia, and his experiences and observations make interesting reading, especially for me, an Asian living in Australia (the inverse of his situation).
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