- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Harmony Books; 1 Amer ed edition (Jun 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 060960841X
- ISBN-13: 978-0609608418
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 14.5 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 712,428 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In 1976, a Hong Kong fortune-teller told Tiziano Terzani not to fly in 1993 or he would be killed. This restriction to earthbound transport gave him an opportunity to see his beloved Asia in a way he had never done before. A startling insight into how much the East is being swamped by Western goods, attitudes and culture. (Kirkus UK)
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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.
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Journey into the both Asia and the writer's mind.....,
By anandkpr77@yahoo.com (Goettingen, Germany) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East (Hardcover)
Terzani captures the spirit of Asia in this book. He's a writer with much experience in Asia and this can be seen from his analysis and interpretations of the many nuances of Asian culture and politics. As a Malaysian, I find his description about Malaysia accurate and unlike many other travel books, he managed to look at both the good and bad side of Malaysian life...If you ever want a good initiation into the world of travel literature, this is the one. Bottom line, buy this book. It is worth every penny you spend...
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Profound, insightful and wistful,
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This review is from: Fortune-Teller Told ME, A: Earthbound Travels in the Far East (Paperback)
I loved this book. I found Terzani's wistful yearning for the world gone, now submerged in materialism and concrete mirroring my own sadness at watching beautiful places ruined by needless development.
At times I found the endless fortune tellers soothsaying a bit boring, but his descriptions inbetween, especially of Singapore, Malaysia and Burma were beautiful. He was insightful and profound, sometimes even quite pigheaded and judgmental, which I found very refreshing in this world of political correctness. One of the best travel books I have read.
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book is amazing at capturing flavor of asia,
This review is from: A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Travels in the Far East: Earthbound Travels in the Far East (Hardcover)
This guy is just really clued in to asia and also turns a very precise phrase. I happen to like asia, divination, feng shui; so this guy writing about his material is just an incredible find for me. Friends of mine have their eye on my copy, but I'm not through reading it, so I need to order from UK to get them their own (it's not available in the states). I guess I bought it at some airport while traveling, didn't even realize what gem it was until, several weeks later, when I started reading it and was immediately captivated.
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