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Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East | Tiziano Terzani
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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."
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A fortune-teller told me | Tiziano Terzani

Next best thing to traveling 😎 in Asia.

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Cindyelizavaz
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That‘s a lot of histories packed into one book! I do however, doubt if the author fact check the book though as I‘ve found a few mistake in the section of Malaysia. For example Hari Raya was written as Hari Raja.

If you‘re a history buff, you‘d love this.

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Cindyelizavaz

I was happy. I was alone, and I found the solitude a magnificent companion.

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The events were a constant reminder of how important it is for people to have nature around them, to observe it and learn its logic and enjoy it. How can children grow up mentally healthy in the middle of the city, without feeling the rhythm of plant and animal life along with their own? Never in history has man drifted so far from nature as now, and this has been perhaps the worst of our mistake.

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Cindyelizavaz

We should all ask ourselves - always - if what we are doing improves and enriched our lives. Or have we all, through some monstrous deformation, lost the instinct for what life should be: first and foremost, an opportunity to be happy.

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Cindyelizavaz
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#nowreading A Fortune-Teller Told Me by #TizianoTerzani. #travel

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mllemay
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I cannot summarize this book in a way that does it justice so I encourage you to go read the blurb. If you find it interesting, then you will enjoy the book. It's a great snapshot of Asia in the early 90s. I got annoyed at the lack of nuance in the author's idolatry of the past and demonizing of modernity and economic development but his exploration of faith, spirituality and the occult was fascinating and thought-provoking.

Imagineannie Ooooh right in my wheelhouse! Thank you. 8y
mllemay @Imagineannie great! I hope you enjoy it :) 8y
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