The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.
Tahir ShahIt is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
Tahir ShahThe mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it.
Tahir Shah