The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

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

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

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.

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

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.

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