When I was both young and restless, before I had young of my own, I would backpack all over South East Asia.

It’s not often you come across a book that is so multi-layered that it has a wide appeal.

Nine times out of 10, it’s going to be a better experience to witness an animal in the wild, doing its instinctive thing, than see one confined to the boundaries of a cage in a zoo, with nothing more to explore than the same small patch of artificial habitat it has its entire life.