Embark on a captivating odyssey with 'Krankenwagen-the sick car?' A story of uncertainty, how a young ambitious yet confused protagonist takes a journey of self discovery. Follow her as she navigates the poignant depths of homesickness in a foreign land. The inner calling wants to be the guiding light, but is elusive, disillusioned and hapless at times. It is a psychological sojourn of the heart and the head, that keeps you searching for answers in the deepest echelons of the mind.

Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for a year, Tiziano Terzani, a vastly experienced Asia correspondent, took his first step into an unknown world. Traveling by foot, train, bus, car, and boat, and consulting soothsayers and shamans along the way, Terzani discovered as never before the complex traditions and unexpected delights of the people and lands he had been reporting on for years. "I was marked for death, " writes Terzani, "and instead I was reborn."