In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.

Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.