A Fortune-Teller Told Me

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• A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East By Tiziano Terzani

  The mental connection one makes with a travel writer can sometimes be quirky. The author is (unless you have serious armchair time) an inconstant companion on an often imaginary or vicarious journey; his opinions or observations are immune to your de ... (read full critics)

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  A fortune-teller told me

  I always find it interesting to understand our own culture from 'outside' perspective. and this book makes me believe that the author does care to know what really is about Asia, its culture, its development, though it's bit cynical, too much at times, and harsh, and direct. Sometimes I hate him to ... (continue)

  I always find it interesting to understand our own culture from 'outside' perspective. and this book makes me believe that the author does care to know what really is about Asia, its culture, its development, though it's bit cynical, too much at times, and harsh, and direct. Sometimes I hate him to be so right about my people. Following his way travelling around Asia and part Europe to look for the local best fortune-teller, I am in the middle of it, amused.
  and now I finished, it was such a wonderful reading experience in a way that it seems that I had this conversation, sometimes argument with the author.Strongly recommended to those who welcome a differnent way of travelling and living. it keeps my mind spinning with grooving ideas,about travelling, about development, about materialism,about destination...'travel makes sense only if you come back with an answer in your baggage.' if reading is like travelling, I at least hold a bag during the trip.

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  ymm said on Aug 2, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• a beautiful book, a pleasant reading, following the author which describes how a curse has been transformed into a regenerating discovery in a disappearing world more a more flattened, where the point of travelling is in the journey itself and not in the arrival.
  I’m very grateful to Tiziano Te ... (continue)

  a beautiful book, a pleasant reading, following the author which describes how a curse has been transformed into a regenerating discovery in a disappearing world more a more flattened, where the point of travelling is in the journey itself and not in the arrival.
  I’m very grateful to Tiziano Terzani, because his book gave me some peace and relax. He’s a true traveller, and after reading his book I felt as I’d been his travelling companion. Beautiful, three times beautiful.

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  Albe said on Jun 9, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 384 Pages
• Edition: 1 Amer ed
• ISBN-10: 060960841X
• ISBN-13: 9780609608418
• Publisher: Harmony
• Pub date: Jun 19, 2001
• Dimensions: 1484 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, Livres Français, Libros en Español, Livros em Português, Libri Italiani, Polskie Książki

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