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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

  • 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
 

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    Your Child Abroad: a travel health guide

    “compulsive reading…tips are relevant for any foreign holiday…extremely well laid out.”

    The Guardian, London

    Madagascar Misadventure

    I love the setting of this story – it’s so sumptuously told. The sights, smells and sounds are vivid and evocative, it completely took me away while I was reading it.

    Emily Talbot

    Staying Healthy When You Travel

    its bedside manner is decidedly more reassuring and less alarmist [than the Lonely Planet guide]

    Sunday Telegraph book of the week