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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 has lived in the East for long enough to be able to say diarrhoea in nine Asian languages. She's become an authority on travel health. 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 stories 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

  • Under a Himalayan Sky: A Story of Love, Loss and Learning to Live
 

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    Staying Healthy When You Travel

    with tips on avoiding afflictions such as ‘sahib’s knee’ when mountain walking.

    Australian Gourmet Traveller

    Your Child Abroad: a travel health guide

    "Sunburn, tummy ache, jellyfish, vampire bats and assassin bugs - they're all in here, along with comprehensive advice on first aid, what to pack in a medical kit and how to ask basic questions in five languages. Whether you are off to Amsterdam or the Amazon, this is the perfect family health companion"

    Conde Nast Traveller magazine

    Under a Himalayan Sky: A Story of Love, Loss and Learning to Live

    I have read an early draft of this book and found it incredibly moving and beautiful

    Lorna