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

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

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

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

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

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