A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East Hardcover - 2001

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.

Details

• Title A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
• Author Tiziano Terzani
• Binding Hardcover
• Edition First Edition
• Pages 371
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Harmony, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Date June 19, 2001
• ISBN 9780609608418 / 060960841X
• Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
• Dimensions 9.4 x 5.92 x 1.25 in (23.88 x 15.04 x 3.18 cm)
• Library of Congress subjects Southeast Asia - Description and travel, East Asia - Description and travel
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 00053530
• Dewey Decimal Code 915.044