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

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.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

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.

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

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