On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish. — Tahir Shah Adventure Copy Share Image
Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff. — Tahir Shah Danger 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
“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
Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones. — Tahir Shah Adventure Copy Share Image
“It was an awkward moment. We were burning down our host's house, a situation which any guest seeks to avoid.” — Tahir Shah Awkward Copy Share Image
“We may yearn for rustic detail and old-world charm, but those who have it set their minds on vinyl wallpaper, fitted carpets… — Tahir Shah Furniture Copy Share Image
In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had… — Tahir Shah Enough Copy Share Image
“I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it.” — Tahir Shah Documents 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
“Experience has taught me the power of trophies. You may have every knick-knack and useless contraption ever devised, but while they weigh… — Tahir Shah Long way Copy Share Image
Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the… — Tahir Shah Chance Copy Share Image
“Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes… — Tahir Shah Adversity Copy Share Image
“Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have… — Tahir Shah Destruction Copy Share Image
Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that… — Tahir Shah Alive Copy Share Image
“Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared… — Tahir Shah Omar-khayyam Copy Share Image
“The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking… — Tahir Shah Africa Copy Share Image
Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order. — Tahir Shah Important Copy Share Image
Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible. — Tahir Shah Believe Copy Share Image
Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone… — Tahir Shah Jungle Copy Share Image
If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its… — Tahir Shah Adventure Copy Share Image
“As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.” — Tahir Shah Africa Copy Share Image
“Moroccan traffic isn't like normal traffic. It's armed combat, a war of wills, in which only the very bravest have a chance… — Tahir Shah Armed Copy Share Image
One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene. — Tahir Shah Hygiene Copy Share Image
Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat. — Tahir Shah Calcutta Copy Share Image
The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as… — Tahir Shah Amazon Copy Share Image
“In the West we are driven by an extreme form of guilt -- if you are not seen to be working like… — Tahir Shah East-vs-west Copy Share Image
Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does. — Tahir Shah Country Copy Share Image
“I am all for curses and superstition, but there's a point at which they start getting in the way. That point had… — Tahir Shah Curse Copy Share Image
“Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.” — Tahir Shah Adventure Copy Share Image
To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path — Tahir Shah Astronomy Copy Share Image
“My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it.” — Tahir Shah Humor Copy Share Image
“In Morocco," said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.” — Tahir Shah Gossip Copy Share Image
In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that i will come to… — Tahir Shah Harm Copy Share Image
Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship. — Tahir Shah Ability Copy Share Image
There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the… — Tahir Shah Bullets Copy Share Image
The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation. — Tahir Shah Body Copy Share Image
“As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.” — Tahir Shah Adventure Copy Share Image
“Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they… — Tahir Shah Adventure Copy Share Image
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