The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

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

I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

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

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

A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.