A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East

ISBN-13: 9780006550716 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 384 str.

Tiziano Terzani

Opis

An account of the travels of Tiziano Terzani, a news correspondent who travelled only by rail, road and sea, having been told that he should not risk flying by a fortune teller. Terzani consulted fortune tellers and shaman from then on, since the original seer had prevented him from taking a plane which had subsequently crashed in Cambodia.

O autorze

For 25 years Terzani has lived in Asia, witnessing and reporting on its wars and revolutions. Born in Florence, educated in Europe and the US, Terzani became Far Eastern correspondent of Der Spiegel in 1971. In 1975 he was one of the few Western journalists to stay behind in Saigon and to witness the North Vietnamese take over the city. In 1984 he was living in China when he was arrested, accused of counter-revolutionary activity and expelled. His last book was translated as GOODNIGHT, MISTER LENIN: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE END OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE (Picador 1993/4).