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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

  • Care not Cure: David's Escape
 

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    Lemurs of the Lost World

    “Excellent travel adventure story and introduction to peoples, animals and environments in Madagascar. If you're thinking about going on an expedition to somewhere like Madagascar and fancy a dry-run in an armchair first, this is your book.”

    Pete Kay, N.Yorks

    Staying Healthy When You Travel

    “offers practical advice for disease prevention and treatment, based on the author’s and travellers’ personal experiences in a clear and concise way.”

    Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

    Your Child Abroad: a travel health guide

    “Essential handbook for the more adventurous family traveller”

    Junior magazine