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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 has lived in the East for long enough to be able to say diarrhoea in nine Asian languages. She's become an authority on travel health. 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 stories 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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    Lemurs of the Lost World

    “the finest travel book thus far written about Madagascar”

    Dervla Murphy in the Times Literary Supplement, London

    Your Child Abroad: a travel health guide

    “Useful… down-to-earth… practical… reassuring… how to deal with everything from sunburn to scorpion bites…. full of excellent advice that will be appreciated not only by parents but by most adult travellers too.”

    Bird Watching magazine

    Himalayan Hostages

    I loved your book

    Tara aged 10