In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.

In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.

During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.

Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

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

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.