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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

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

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    Staying Healthy When You Travel

    Staying Healthy When You Travel is essential reading before you go to exotic or remote places. Full of advice on how to avoid medical problems abroad - and what to to if you don’t avoid them. And lots of interesting anecdotes on how things can go unexpectedly wrong.

    Dr Mark

    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

    Lemurs of the Lost World

    “the finest travel book thus far written about Madagascar”

    Dervla Murphy in the Times Literary Supplement, London