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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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    50 Camels and She's Yours

    A refreshingly honest collection of travel vignettes. Chapters shift easily from 'evacuating' into yoghurt pots to touching local encounters, all made possible by the relentless curiosity of five remarkable people.

    Wanderlust

    The Magic Middle Finger

    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

    Lemurs of the Lost World

    “Wilson’s nicely written and highly entertaining account is full of lively and colourful anecdotes.”

    New Scientist, London