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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 three novels (two 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

  • The Essential Guide to Travel Health

  • Snowfed Waters

  • Himalayan Kidnap

  • Lemurs of the Lost World

  • Your Child Abroad: a travel health guide

  • Chasing the Tiger

  • The Magic Middle Finger

  • 50 Camels and She's Yours

  • Himalayan Hostages

  • Himalayan Hideout
 

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    The Essential Guide to Travel Health

    “indispensable…some of the most realistic, practical advice about trekking” 

    Independent on Sunday

    Lemurs of the Lost World

    “an absorbing account of a unique place.”

    The Geographical Journal

    A Glimpse of Eternal Snows

    Thoroughly engrossing tale of the author's family's life in a remote Nepalese village. Loved reading it as it brought back so many memories of my own trips to Nepal.

    LibraryThing