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.

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

The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.

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

On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.

Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

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.