Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and Shamans wherever he went, he ... » 

Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and Shamans wherever he went, he learnt to undertsand and respect older ways of life and beliefs now threatened by the crasser forms of Western modernity. «