Fortune Teller Told Me

Regular price
Unit price
per
Compare to estimated retail price: S$25.91  

Earthbound travels; reawakening to life's mystical essence.

If you're in the mood for a journey that blends adventure with profound reflection, "A Fortune-Teller Told Me" takes you on a gripping detour from the ordinary. Tiziano Terzani's avoidance of air travel leads to encounters with the mystical across Asia, offering a look at life through a lens that respects and cherishes the endangered wisdom of older cultures. This isn't just a travel log; it's a spiritual quest that's elegantly penned, beckoning you to consider the roads less flown and the magic that might await there.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Fortune Teller Told Me

Regular price
Unit price
per
Compare to estimated retail price: S$25.91  
Condition guide

Special Offer

Buy 3, Get 1 Free On All Items Under S$10

Add 4 items under S$10 to your cart — the cheapest one is on us.

ISBN: 9780006550716
Authors: Tiziano Terzani
Publisher: Flamingo Books
Date of Publication: 1998-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Travel, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Biography, Travelogue, Memoir
Goodreads rating: 4.2
(rated by 6800 readers)

Description

Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author – a seasoned correspondent – took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to understand and respect older ways of life and beliefs now threatened by the crasser forms of Western modernity. William Shawcross in the Literary Review praised Terzani for ‘his beautifully written adventure story… a voyage of self-discovery… He sees fortune-tellers, soothsayers, astrologers, chiromancers, seers, shamans, magicians, palmists, frauds, men and women of god (many gods) all over Asia and in Europe too… Almost every page and every story celebrates the mystical and the unknowable. It is a fabulous story of renewal and change… Terzani is already something of a legend. He has written magnificently all his life. Never better than now.’ Yes, the fortune-teller did save him from an air-crash in Cambodia. Looking back afterwards, Terzani reckoned that ‘I was marked for death and instead I was reborn.’
 

Earthbound travels; reawakening to life's mystical essence.

If you're in the mood for a journey that blends adventure with profound reflection, "A Fortune-Teller Told Me" takes you on a gripping detour from the ordinary. Tiziano Terzani's avoidance of air travel leads to encounters with the mystical across Asia, offering a look at life through a lens that respects and cherishes the endangered wisdom of older cultures. This isn't just a travel log; it's a spiritual quest that's elegantly penned, beckoning you to consider the roads less flown and the magic that might await there.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.