by Tiziano Terzani · TEA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788850235841
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In the spring of 1976, in Hong Kong, an old Chinese fortune teller warns the author, Tiziano Terzani: "Beware! In 1993 you run a great risk of dying. In that year, do not fly. Never fly." Years later, Terzani does not forget the prophecy and transforms it into an opportunity to see the world with new eyes. He decides not to take planes for a year, without giving up his job as a correspondent. Thus, 1993 becomes a very special year in his life, traveling by train, boat, car, and on foot, observing countries and people of Asia from a different perspective. The result is an extraordinary book that is at once an adventure novel, autobiography, travelogue, and reportage.
Tiziano Terzani was an Italian journalist and writer, best known for his extensive knowledge of 20th century East Asia and for being one of the very few western reporters to witness both the fall of Saigon to the hands of the Viet Cong and the fall of Phnom Penh at the hands of the Khmer Rouge in the mid-1970s.
