I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.

I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.

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

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

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

The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.

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