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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
 

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    Lemurs of the Lost World

    "Jane weaves a wonderful sense of place and people into this book."

    Deanne Urmy, HMCO, Boston, Mass

    Your Child Abroad: a travel health guide

    “comprehensive and comforting book for parents”

    Dr Deborah Mills, Travel Health practitioner, Brisbane

    A Glimpse of Eternal Snows

    I read this on my first trip to Nepal and finished it all too soon. As a lone female traveller I found Jane's courage both in Nepal and in writing this account hugely inspiring.

    lone female traveller