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A fortune-teller told me

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An edition of A Fortune-Teller Told Me (1998)

A fortune-teller told me

earthbound travels in the Far East

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Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for a whole 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 it reinvigorated him. The result is an immensely engaging, insightful, and idiosyncratic journey, filled with unexpected delights and strange encounters. A bestseller and major prizewinner in Italy, A Fortune-Teller Told Me is a powerful warning against the new missionaries of materialism.From the Hardcover edition.

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Flamingo
Language
English
Pages
375

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A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
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A fortune-teller told me: earthbound travels in the Far East
1998, Flamingo
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Edition Notes

Translation of: Un indovino mi disse.
First published: London : HarperCollins, 1997.

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London

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Library of Congress
DS508.2 .T47 1998, DS508.2.T47 1998

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Pagination
375 p. :
Number of pages
375

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6822833M
Internet Archive
fortunetellertol00terz
ISBN 10
0006550711
LCCN
00303691
OCLC/WorldCat
43184864
Library Thing
249494
Goodreads
326938

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