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Summary: Fear of Flying
Review: Tiziano Terzani, a top journalist from Europe who covered Asia for years, had a hobby of visiting fortune tellers. One year, one of the fortune tellers told him to avoid all air travel in 1992. Imagine, no air travel for an international journalist! But Terzani decided to do just this, to travel only by surface during 93. His wonderfully understanding boss approved, he spent that year only doing surface travel, sometimes illegally across borders that are closed except to air travel. We get some interesting views of quite a few Asian countries, like Thailand, Hong Kong and more, while Terzani records his visits to fortune-tellers to get confirming readings and gives us his impressions of life in exotic places.Did the fortune-teller give him an accurate reading? Would Terzani have been in an air crash? There was of course, an air crash somewhere, sometime. Would Terzani have been on that plane? We second-guess this question all through the book, while Terzani takes us on a fascinating tour of Asia through the back streets and cubbyholes of famous and not-so-famous fortune-tellers and psychics. If you love the books of Paul Theroux, you may very much enjoy this book as well.
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