Beyond the Devil's Teeth
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Beyond the Devil's Teeth is a travel book by Anglo-Afghan author, Tahir Shah
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Forty-five million years ago, Gondwanaland split apart to form India, Africa and South America. Spellbound by the ancient myth of the Gonds who inhabited a fragment of the supercontinent, Tahir Shah
decided to follow their path through India and Pakistan, to Uganda and Rwanda, Kenya and Liberia, before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for Brazil, and the Patagonian glaciers.
Roughing it for most of the journey, Shah shared his travels and his tales with a mix of eccentric and entertaining characters, from Osman and Prideep, Mumbai's answer to Laurel and Hardy
, to Oswaldo Rodiguez Oswaldo, a well-turned-out Patagonian.
Beyond the Devil's Teeth was Shah's first mainstream travel book. Although received well by the critics, it's less crafted as his later works, such as The Caliph's House
and In Arabian Nights
. In a note on his own website , Shah describes how he set up his own agency called Worldwide Media Limited -- and masqueraded as an agent called William Watkins -- in order to sell the book: it was a ruse that worked. The book sold to the distinguished British publisher Weidenfeld and Nicolson, and paved the way for a host of other works.
Tahir Shah
Tahir Shah , né Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi is an Anglo-Afghan Indian author, journalist and documentary maker. He lives in Casablanca, Morocco.-Family origins and life:...
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Forty-five million years ago, Gondwanaland split apart to form India, Africa and South America. Spellbound by the ancient myth of the Gonds who inhabited a fragment of the supercontinent, Tahir Shah
Tahir Shah
Tahir Shah , né Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi is an Anglo-Afghan Indian author, journalist and documentary maker. He lives in Casablanca, Morocco.-Family origins and life:...
decided to follow their path through India and Pakistan, to Uganda and Rwanda, Kenya and Liberia, before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for Brazil, and the Patagonian glaciers.
Roughing it for most of the journey, Shah shared his travels and his tales with a mix of eccentric and entertaining characters, from Osman and Prideep, Mumbai's answer to Laurel and Hardy
Laurel and Hardy
Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema...
, to Oswaldo Rodiguez Oswaldo, a well-turned-out Patagonian.
Beyond the Devil's Teeth was Shah's first mainstream travel book. Although received well by the critics, it's less crafted as his later works, such as The Caliph's House
The Caliph's House
The Caliph's House is a travel book by Anglo-Afghan author, Tahir Shah.Unwilling to raise his two infant children in England, Tahir Shah drags them and his Indian-born wife to Morocco, where he traveled as a child...
and In Arabian Nights
In Arabian Nights
In Arabian Nights is a travel book by Anglo-Afghan author Tahir Shah illustrated by Laetitia Bermejo...
. In a note on his own website , Shah describes how he set up his own agency called Worldwide Media Limited -- and masqueraded as an agent called William Watkins -- in order to sell the book: it was a ruse that worked. The book sold to the distinguished British publisher Weidenfeld and Nicolson, and paved the way for a host of other works.