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• Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

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• One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.

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• Everyone knows that even the best exorcism has to be renewed once in a while.

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• There’s nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.

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• Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent.

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

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

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• A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.

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• Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.

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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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• Stories are a communal currency of humanity.

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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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• It was an awkward moment. We were burning down our host’s house, a situation which any guest seeks to avoid.

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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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• In India everything has a use and a value.

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• The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

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• Exploration is a dirty game.

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• There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.

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• Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach.

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• The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up.

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Tahir Shah (36)

Birth:	16th November, 1966
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Journalist

About

Tahir Shah is the author of fifteen books, many of which chronicle a wide range of outlandish journeys through Africa, Asia and the Americas. For him, there’s nothing so important as deciphering the hidden underbelly of the lands through which he travels.

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