Asia lies close to Terzani's heart. He writes so lovingly about it.
Asia is dear to me as well; I lived there, I exlored it. So the things he writes about sound totally familiar to me.
What differs Terzani from other travel writers is that at some point, his trip stops being an excursion into exotic and becomes an exploration of a life itself.
Some passages are witty, some are serious or even painful to read, and some are so beautifully written that they make me cry. I felt like I was reading of a visit to my homecountry written by a fellow citizen. He managed to give a private feeling to such a public and popular space.