The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together. — Tahir Shah Adventure Copy Share Image
“The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up.” — Tahir Shah Delight Copy Share Image
There’s nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping. — Tahir Shah Adventure Copy Share Image
“The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.” — Tahir Shah Sadness Copy Share Image
“I'm a fool, that I should simply trick the tourists like everyone else. after all, most of them will never come back.… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that… — Tahir Shah Advantage Copy Share Image
There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt… — Tahir Shah Breaking down Copy Share Image
“Nothing was really so important to my father as the achievement of selflessness. He rarely mentioned it directly, but tried to guide… — Tahir Shah Achievements-success Copy Share Image
“Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world… — Tahir Shah India Copy Share Image
“As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in… — Tahir Shah Adventure Copy Share Image
“[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.” — Tahir Shah Bitter experience Copy Share Image
“At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held… — Tahir Shah Culture Copy Share Image
“You have no idea. when you're a salesman here in Marrakech medima, lying is the first thing you learn. generation after generation,… — Tahir Shah Customer Copy Share Image
“An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or,… — Tahir Shah Afghan Copy Share Image
“The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the… — Tahir Shah Adventure Copy Share Image
“The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who… — Tahir Shah Communication Copy Share Image
The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There… — Tahir Shah Backstreet Copy Share Image
“As I see the world, there's one element that's even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It's not that I feel above them… — Tahir Shah Destruction Copy Share Image
“My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth… — Tahir Shah Parenting Copy Share Image
Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in… — Tahir Shah Bags Copy Share Image
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and… — Tahir Shah Blood Copy Share Image
“Real terror is a crippling experience. You sweat so much that your skin goes all wrinkly like when you've been in the… — Tahir Shah Adrenalin Copy Share Image
“Prideep pointed to the flames of paraffin lamps as they came alive in the distance and cackled in awe at the experience.… — Tahir Shah Chef Copy Share Image
Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but… — Tahir Shah Country Copy Share Image
Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an… — Tahir Shah Adversity Copy Share Image
“Calcutta has spectacular over-employment. In the West, where we're obsessed with slashing the numbers of workers for the sake of it, we… — Tahir Shah Technology Copy Share Image
“In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.” — Tahir Shah Adventure Copy Share Image
In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it. — Tahir Shah Confusing Copy Share Image
The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways. — Tahir Shah Behave Copy Share Image
“I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes.” — Tahir Shah Psyche Copy Share Image
Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff. — Tahir Shah Danger Copy Share Image
“Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down… — Tahir Shah Adventure Copy Share Image
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