Tahir Shah Quotes About Travel

Quotes about: Travel

• Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Quality, Gears

  Tahir Shah (2013). “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition”, p.235, Lulu.com

• Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Home, Journey

  Tahir Shah “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

• In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Long, India

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Beyond the Devil's Teeth Paperback”, p.117, Lulu.com

• I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Poverty, Becoming

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 15, 2013

• As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Fear, Hair

• For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Journey, Treasure

• Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Opposites, Cities

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.161, Lulu.com

• One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Hygiene, Senses

• The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Two, Friendly

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Beyond the Devil's Teeth Paperback”, p.96, Lulu.com

• Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Team, Sixteen

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.282, Lulu.com

• Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Hardship, Pleasure

• On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Space, Doe

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.261, Lulu.com

• There’s nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Blood, Quests

  Tahir Shah “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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