{"product_id":"9780007378401","title":"A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East","description":"\u003cp\u003eWarned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author – a seasoned correspondent – took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to understand and respect older ways of life and beliefs now threatened by the crasser forms of Western modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Shawcross in the Literary Review praised Terzani for ‘his beautifully written adventure story… a voyage of self-discovery… He sees fortune-tellers, soothsayers, astrologers, chiromancers, seers, shamans, magicians, palmists, frauds, men and women of god (many gods) all over Asia and in Europe too… Almost every page and every story celebrates the mystical and the unknowable. It is a fabulous story of renewal and change… Terzani is already something of a legend. He has written magnificently all his life. Never better than now.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYes, the fortune-teller did save him from an air-crash in Cambodia. Looking back afterwards, Terzani reckoned that ‘I was marked for death and instead I was reborn.’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tiziano Terzani","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47267876634773,"sku":"9780007378401","price":14.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007378401.jpg?v=1776889987","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007378401","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}