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

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

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

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

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

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.

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