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

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

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

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.

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