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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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    Himalayan Hostages

    Thank you so much for coming to speak to us all. The students were enthralled, as was I!  I have been reading your book with my own class and I was delighted by their gasps and giggles

    Penny

    Lemurs of the Lost World

    “the finest travel book thus far written about Madagascar”

    Dervla Murphy in the Times Literary Supplement, London

    Under a Himalayan Sky: A Story of Love, Loss and Learning to Live

    I enjoyed reading this very much. It was an emotionally intelligent, quietly evocative and inspirational read.

    the publisher's proof-reader