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In India everything has a use and a value.

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Tahir Shah
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 16
Author
Comedian
Explorer
Journalist
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London
England
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India

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I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
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Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.
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The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.
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In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that i will come to no harm.
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Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.
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There’s nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.
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Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.
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If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.
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My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
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For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.
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It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.
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For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home
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Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.
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Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.
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