by Tiziano Terzani · TEA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788850206131
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In the spring of 1976, in Hong Kong, an old Chinese fortune teller warns the author: "Beware! In 1993 you run a great risk of dying. In that year, do not fly. Never fly." After many years, Terzani does not forget the prophecy and transforms it into an opportunity to look at the world with new eyes: he decides not to take planes for a year, without giving up his job as a correspondent. The result of that experience is an extraordinary book that is at once an adventure novel, autobiography, travelogue, and great reportage. Through trains, ships, cars, and on foot, Terzani observes countries and people of his beloved Asia from a new and often ignored perspective.
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.
