The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

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.

Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

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

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.