The traveller

This is the author that completely mesmerizes me with his book, currently.

Tiziano Terzani - this Italian journalist and writer , who has died aged 65 in 2004 of cancer, once said that his gravestone should be inscribed only with his name and the word "traveller". His writings are moving ,and at times heartfelt. Such are rarely accorded to journalists, however distinguished.

"As soon as you start asking questions you find that some of them,especially the simplest, have no obvious answers.You have to go out and look for them. But where? He chose the least expected direction, a difficult one. Perhaps he was attracted by the exotic, by the strange. Those ailen words, new to his ears, appeared much more meaningful than the old familiar ones of his own language. Satori seemed to promise so much more than 'grace' ", Earthbound Travels in the Far East: A fortune teller told me, Tizano Terzani