Tiziano terzani a fortune teller told meaning
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Book Review: A Fortune-Teller Told Me bygd Tiziano Terzani
Two years ago, I saw a fortune teller in Nepal who was oddly accurate when describing me. Not to mention, a lot of what he said about the immediate future has already komma to fruition. Knowing about my run in with the fortune teller, my boyfriend (now husband) mailed me the book A Fortune-Teller Told Meby Tiziano Terzani as a birthday gift.
A Fortune-Teller Told Me is the true story of reporter Tiziano Terzani who was told bygd a kinesisk fortune berättare in 1976 that in the year of 1993 he must not get on any kind of aircraft. If he did, he would surely die. Not believing much in fortunes, he went on his merry way. As 1993 got closer, he couldn’t help but wonder if the fortune berättare was right. Most of the world wouldn’t have a hard time avoiding flying for a year, but as a utländsk correspondent based in Asia, Mr. Terzani’s job involved getting to news stories all over the Asian continent in a timely manner. After mak
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Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for a whole year, Tiziano Terzani—a vastly experienced Asia correspondent—took what he called ‘the first step into an unknown world’ … Travelling by foot, boat, car and train, he visited Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Mongolia, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. Consulting soothsayers and shamans wherever he went, he grew to understand and respect older ways of life and beliefs now threatened by the crasser forms of Western modernity.
Tiziano Terzani spent the whole of 1993 grounded, but he let that affect neither his work nor his wanderlust. As a foreign correspondent for Der Spiegel in the vast continental landmass of Asia, that was no small achievement. But A Fortune-Teller Told Me is far more than a series of despatches from the East, and more too than a simple travelogue of loosely-connected terrestrial journey.
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“A fortune-teller told me” – Tiziano Terzani’s earthbound travels in the Far East
It’s been a while since I wrote a book review here on the blog, but it was because I was on a never-ending search for a book that would capture my attention and keep me hooked until the last page. Three books started later, it happened with Tiziano Terzani’s “A fortune-teller told me.”
Portuguese writer Paulo Moura suggested it at a travel writing workshop I attended this year and I took advantage of the last Lisbon Book Fair to bring it home. Tiziano has thus become, in recent months, my travel companion on the beach or before bed, taking me with him on a curious journey through some Far Eastern countries.
“A fortune-teller told me”… who is Tiziano Terzani?
I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t know Tiziano Terzani before this book. As a journalist, I should have known the name of one of the world’s most renowned jo