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My passion for wildlife
began early

I used to smuggle roadkill into the house despite my mother's preference for flowers.

 

Jane Wilson-Howarth mother, physician, author and zoologist, is an authority on travel health. She has lived in the East for long enough to be able to say diarrhoea in nine Asian languages. So far five novels (four for children) and five of her non-fiction books have been published as well as around 300 articles on travel and health plus tales published in several anthologies.
Read more.

  • A Glimpse of Eternal Snows

  • How to Shit Around the World

  • Staying Healthy When You Travel

  • Snowfed Waters

  • Himalayan Kidnap

  • Lemurs of the Lost World

  • Your Child Abroad: a travel health guide

  • Chasing the Tiger

  • Madagascar Misadventure

  • 50 Camels and She's Yours

  • Himalayan Hostages

  • Himalayan Hideout

  • Himalayan Heist

  • Care not Cure: David's Escape
 

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    Your Child Abroad: a travel health guide

    “comprehensive and comforting book for parents”

    Dr Deborah Mills, Travel Health practitioner, Brisbane

    Himalayan Hostages

    What makes this adventure story unique is the author's first hand and in depth knowledge of the flora and fauna of Nepal. The descriptions of both are so vivid that you feel you are really there, with the two brothers, Alex and James, as they desperately follow the trail of their kidnapped parents, facing life-threatening danger along the way.

    How to Shit Around the World

    Featured in the Bookseller alternative review of the year (Dec 2000) as the June highlight.

    The Bookseller