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

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.

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.

One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.

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

The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.

I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.