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

On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.

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

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

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.

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