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There’s nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.

Tahir Shah

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Tahir Shah
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 16
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There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.
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I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.
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My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
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There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.
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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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Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.
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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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I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand.
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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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One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.
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A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.
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Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.
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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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Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.
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Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
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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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These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.
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Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.
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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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Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.
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